Toronto

[ tuh-ron-toh ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Ontario, in SE Canada, on Lake Ontario.

Toronto

/ təˈrɒntəʊ /

noun

1. a city in S central Canada, capital of Ontario, on Lake Ontario: the major industrial centre of Canada; two universities. Pop: 2 481 494 (2001)

Toronto

1. Capital of Ontario , Canada , and the largest city in the province, in southern Ontario on Lake Ontario ; the largest city in Canada; a commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center of Canada.

Other Words From

• To·ron·to·ni·an [tawr-, uh, n-, toh, -nee-, uh, n, tor-, t, uh, -ron-], adjective noun

Example Sentences

Brookfield Asset Management, the Toronto-based,122-year-old outfit whose current market cap is $63 billion and that oversees $600 billion in assets, clearly falls into the latter camp.

From TechCrunch

Backup center Robin Lopez added 13 points, and starter Alex Len — who came to the Wizards from Toronto — added 11.

From Washington Post

Toronto is actually tied for the league lead in 3-point attempts per game.

From FiveThirtyEight

Len, a 27-year-old whom Toronto released Tuesday, will sign a one-year minimum deal with the Wizards, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

From Washington Post

That Springer, rated by some as the top free agent on the entire market, would wind up in Toronto in many ways makes perfect sense.

From Washington Post

A friendly twenty-something woman originally from Toronto said it best.

From The Daily Beast

One night in 2004, my college boyfriend called me from inside a closet in a north Toronto housing project.

From The Daily Beast

“We opened the Toronto Film Festival with The Fifth Estate, and there was an immediate rejection of it,” he says.

From The Daily Beast

We agreed on the Sheppard Centre shopping mall in north Toronto because it was convenient.

From The Daily Beast

The Toronto Star reported that three different women (all unnamed) alleged all manner of harassment and intimidation.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

She remembered her ambitions and her resolve to leave the dreary plains and make her mark in Toronto or Montreal.

From Project Gutenberg

The land on each side is fertile, and supplies Toronto market.

From Project Gutenberg

We also pass, in going to Toronto, two other remarkable places.

From Project Gutenberg

Roberts is still in Germany and Todeschi has been exchanged and is now in Toronto.

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