Toronto

[ tuh-ron-toh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Toronto

/ təˈrɒntəʊ /

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

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