Ottawa

[ ot-uh-wuh ]

noun

, plural Ot·ta·was, (especially collectively) Ot·ta·wa

1. a city in and the capital of Canada, in southeastern Ontario.
2. a river in southeastern Canada, flowing southeast along the boundary between Ontario and Quebec into the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. 685 miles (1,105 kilometers) long.
3. a city in northeastern Illinois, southwest of Chicago.
4. a town in eastern Kansas.
5. Also called Od·a·wa [od, -, uh, -w, uh]. a member of a tribe of Algonquian people of Canada, forced into the Lake Superior and Lake Michigan regions by the Iroquois confederacy.
6. Also called Od·a·wa. the Ojibwe language as used by the Ottawa.

Ottawa

/ ˈɒtəwə /

noun

1. the capital of Canada, in E Ontario on the Ottawa River: name changed from Bytown to Ottawa in 1854. Pop: 774 072 (2001)
2. a river in central Canada, rising in W Quebec and flowing west, then southeast to join the St Lawrence River as its chief tributary at Montreal; forms the border between Quebec and Ontario for most of its length. Length: 1120 km (696 miles)

Ottawa

1. Capital of Canada , located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa River from Quebec .

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ottawa¹

First recorded in 1660–70; from French Outaouan, or directly from Ojibwe Ota·wa· “traders”

Example Sentences

Before they added Reilly from Ottawa, they were so short-handed that they needed to claim 6-foot-6 Jarred Tinordi off waivers from Nashville.

From FiveThirtyEight

Last year, the company opened an R&D warehouse in Ottawa, Canada to further test fulfillment technology, and expanded its warehouses.

From Digiday

Ottawa’s Marcus Hogberg is, statistically, the worst netminder in the league.

From Washington Post

Working at Carleton University in Ottawa, she studies how animal nervous systems.

From Science News For Students

The same weekend Harrigan’s account went down, Ivonne Sanchez, who runs a permanent makeup clinic in Ottawa, found her ads were blocked too, for what Facebook said was a “policy violation.”

From Fortune

Other Western cities have been attacked as well, including Madrid, London, Brussels and Ottawa.

From The Daily Beast

By 1931, Karsh had returned to Ottawa and opened his own studio.

From The Daily Beast

The Queen first attended Chogm in Ottawa, Canada, in 1973 – missing the first one in 1971 – and has been at every summit since.

From The Daily Beast

The 33-year-old made several trips from his home in Ottawa to the U.K.

From The Daily Beast

The royal couple are currently in Ottawa, and tomorrow will set out for Nunavut, in Iqaluit, which sounds very far north indeed.

From The Daily Beast

Champlain limits this appellation to the tribes that dwell upon the Ottawa.

From Project Gutenberg

British Columbia sends three senators and seven members to the lower house of the federal parliament, which sits at Ottawa.

From Project Gutenberg

You will notice that Parliamentary phrases stick in my vocabulary after a visit to Ottawa.

From Project Gutenberg

She also announces that she is food controller for her family and doesn't care a "woof" for regulations that are made at Ottawa.

From Project Gutenberg

The delegates proceeded afterwards to Ottawa and Toronto, where similar festive gatherings took place.

From Project Gutenberg