Toronto
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- proper noun
- /təˈrɒntoʊ/
- I went to this conference in Toronto last fall.
- University of Toronto
- Toronto, Ontario
- Toronto, Canada
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Watch on YouTubeI took a flight from here to Toronto and I went into Newfoundland.
- I took a flight from here to Toronto and I went into Newfoundland.
- We're also adding dates I believe for Toronto and who knows where else.
- We are hitting London, Chicago, New York, Toronto and LA.
- They flew me to Toronto first class, and I'm like, what?
- It's Gunter from Ontario, Canada, Toronto more specifically.
- And I think this was in Canada, Toronto, I want to say Toronto.
- Then I went up to Toronto and did it for CBC Television.
- But also tell us about downtown Toronto and Yuk Yuks.
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I went to a concert in Toronto, the largest city in Canada.
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Coming home, we stopped off in Toronto.
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So we're at the Toronto airport ready to go home.
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It's so funny, here it is Toronto, not some small little county.
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We are hitting London, Chicago, New York, Toronto and LA.
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I got the last plane out of Toronto.
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I can speak to the housing market in Toronto, my, my hometown.
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Come join us in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a region unlike any other in the world.
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I took a flight from here to Toronto and I went into Newfoundland.
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It is our last day in Dallas and then we head back to Toronto tonight.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Toronto comes from a Mohawk word tkaronto, which means 'where trees stand in the water'. The name first described a place near the lakes and later became the city's name, so it reminds us that Toronto sits by Lake Ontario.