Ohio

[oh-hahy-oh]

noun

1. a state in the northeastern central United States: a part of the Midwest. 41,222 sq. mi. (106,765 sq. km). Columbus. OH (for use with zip code), O.

2. a river formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, flowing southwest from Pittsburgh, Pa., to the Mississippi in southern Illinois. 981 miles (1,580 km) long.

Ohio

/ əʊˈhaɪəʊ /

noun

1. Abbreviation and zip code: OH. a state of the central US, in the Midwest on Lake Erie: consists of prairies in the W and the Allegheny plateau in the E, the Ohio River forming the S and most of the E borders. Capital: Columbus. Pop: 11 435 798 (2003 est). Area: 107 044 sq km (41 330 sq miles)

2. a river in the eastern US, formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Pittsburgh: flows generally W and SW to join the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, as its chief E tributary. Length: 1570 km (975 miles)

Ohio

1. State in the northern United States bordered by Michigan and Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to the east, West Virginia and Kentucky to the south, and Indiana to the west. Its capital is Columbus, and its largest city is Cleveland.

Other Word Forms

• Ohioan adjective

Example Sentences

By 6 p.m. on Monday, she had hopped into her car and departed from her hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

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In the 1980s, he came to the U.S. to attend the College of Wooster, a small liberal-arts school in northern Ohio.

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Ms. Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent suburb of Cleveland.

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But the program the Sooners were going to model themselves on wasn’t Ohio State, or Michigan, or Alabama.

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In one instance, the state redacted the name and address of a person with numerous shipments of puppies from Ohio.

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