Toledo

American  

[tuh-lee-doh, taw-le-thaw] / təˈli doʊ, tɔˈlɛ ðɔ /

noun

plural

Toledos

1. Francisco de c1515–84?, Spanish administrator: viceroy of Peru 1569–81.

2. a port in NW Ohio, on Lake Erie.

3. a city in central Spain, on the Tagus River: the capital of Spain under the Romans.

4. a sword or sword blade of finely tempered steel, a formerly made in Toledo, Spain.

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Toledo British  

noun

1. Ancient name: Toletum.  a city in central Spain, on the River Tagus: capital of Visigothic Spain, and of Castile from 1087 to 1560; famous for steel and swords since the first century. Pop: 72 549 (2003 est)

2. an inland port in NW Ohio, on Lake Erie: one of the largest coal-shipping ports in the world; transportation and industrial centre; university (1872). Pop: 308 973 (2003 est)

3. a fine-tapered sword or sword blade

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Toledo Cultural  

1. Industrial city in northwestern Ohio.

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Example Sentences

As one former associate tells Springs Toledo about the Boston mobster: “I can’t talk about Joe. He wouldn’t want me to.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Few Spanish politicians make the case for Latin American liberty as well as Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, a member of Spain’s Congress of Deputies.

From The Wall Street Journal

He has been in preventive custody ever since, alongside Humala and Toledo.

From Barron's

Susan Pratt, a nurse who is also president of a union representing nurses in Toledo, Ohio, called the move “a smack in the face.”

From Los Angeles Times

In the early 2010s, the editorial pages of the Post-Gazette and its sister publication, the Toledo Blade, also owned by the Blocks, began turning conservative after decades of being more liberal and pro-labor.

From MarketWatch

Related Words

• blade
• dagger
• saber