name
Meaning 1
A city in Ontario, Canada; the capital city of Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Ottawa
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒtəwə/
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General-American: /ˈɑtəwə/
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General-American: [ˈɑɾəwə]
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General-American: /ˈɑtəˌwɑ/
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Canada: /ˈɒtəwɒ/
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Canada: /ˈɒtəwə/
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[ˈɔɾ̥əwa(ː)] Ottawa Valley, dialectal
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CMU ARPABET: AA1 T AH0 W AA2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
The federal government of Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: metonymically, synecdoche
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Meaning 3
A river flowing southeast between Ontario and Quebec, Canada into the St. Lawrence River.
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Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of LaSalle County, Illinois.
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Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Kansas.
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Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
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Meaning 7
A number of places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Putnam County, Ohio.
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Meaning 8
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
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Meaning 9
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
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Meaning 10
A number of places in the United States:
Some other townships, listed under Ottawa Township.
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Meaning 11
A village and former commune of Ivory Coast.
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Meaning 12
A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Meaning 13
An Algonquian people closely related to the Ojibwe.
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Meaning 14
The Ottawa language (may be considered a dialect of Ojibwe).
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noun
Meaning 15
A member of the Ottawa people.
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noun
Meaning 16
the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Canadian capital, capital of Canada
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Broader terms: national capital
noun
Meaning 17
a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Outaouais, Ottawa river
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Broader terms: river
noun
Meaning 18
a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Algonquian, Algonquin
History
Etymology
From Ojibwe odaawaa/ᐅᑡᐙ (“an Ottawa; a trader”), from Proto-Algonquian *atawewa (“to trade”).
Across languages
Translations
125 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: ottawes — Native American people
- French: Outaouais — Native American people
- German: Odawa — Native American people
- Ojibwe: odaawaag — Native American people
- Ottawa: daawaag — Native American people
- Potawatomi: Neshnabék — Native American people
- Unami: Taweyok — Native American people
- Ojibwe: odaawaamowin — Native American language
- Ottawa: daawaamwin — Native American language
- Potawatomi: wdawamwen — Native American language
- Afrikaans: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Albanian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Amharic: ኦታዋ (ʾotawa) — capital of Canada
- Arabic: أُوتَاوَا (ʔōtāwā) — capital of Canada
- Armenian: Օտտավա (Ōttava) — capital of Canada
- Assamese: অট্টৱা (ottowa) — capital of Canada
- Asturian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Azerbaijani: Ottava — capital of Canada
- Belarusian: Ата́ва (Atáva) — capital of Canada
- Bengali: অটোয়া (oṭōẇa) — capital of Canada
- Bulgarian: Ота́ва (Otáva) — capital of Canada
- Burmese: အော့တဝမြို့ (au.ta.wa.mrui.) — capital of Canada
- Catalan: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Chinese Cantonese: 渥太華 /渥太华 (ak1 taai3 waa4) — capital of Canada
- Chinese Cantonese: 渥京 (ak1 ging1, uk1 ging1) — capital of Canada
- Chinese Mandarin: 渥太華 /渥太华 (Wòtàihuá) — capital of Canada
- Chinese Mandarin: 渥京 (Wòjīng) — capital of Canada
- Corsican: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Czech: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Danish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Dutch: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Esperanto: Otavo — capital of Canada
- Estonian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Finnish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- French: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Galician: Otava — capital of Canada
- Georgian: ოტავა (oṭava) — capital of Canada
- German: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Greek: Οττάβα (Ottáva) — capital of Canada
- Greek: Οτάβα (Otáva) — capital of Canada
- Gujarati: ઓટાવા (oṭāvā) — capital of Canada
- Hawaiian: ʻOttawa — capital of Canada
- Hebrew: אוטווה \ אוֹטָוָה (otawa) — capital of Canada
- Hindi: ओटावा (oṭāvā) — capital of Canada
- Hungarian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Icelandic: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Indonesian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Inuktitut: ᐊᑦᑖᕙ (attaafa) — capital of Canada
- Irish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Italian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Jamaican Creole: Atawa — capital of Canada
- Japanese: オタワ (Otawa) — capital of Canada
- Kannada: ಆಟ್ಟಾವಾ (āṭṭāvā) — capital of Canada
- Kazakh: Оттава (Ottava) — capital of Canada
- Khmer: អូតាវ៉ា (ʼoutaavaa) — capital of Canada
- Korean: 오타와 (Otawa) — capital of Canada
- Northern Kurdish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Kyrgyz: Оттава (Ottava) — capital of Canada
- Lao: ໂອຕະວາ (ʼō ta wā) — capital of Canada
- Latin: Ottavia — capital of Canada
- Latvian: Otava — capital of Canada
- Lithuanian: Otava — capital of Canada
- Macedonian: Ота́ва (Otáva) — capital of Canada
- Malay: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Malayalam: ഓട്ടവ (ōṭṭava) — capital of Canada
- Maltese: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Mohawk: Kanà:tso — capital of Canada
- Mongolian: Оттава (Ottava) — capital of Canada
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Odia: ଓଟାୱା (oṭāwā) — capital of Canada
- Ottawa: Daawaa — capital of Canada
- Pashto: اوټاوا (oṭāwā) — capital of Canada
- Pashto: اټاوا (aṫāwā) — capital of Canada
- Persian: اتاوا (otâvâ) — capital of Canada
- Polish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Portuguese: Otava — capital of Canada
- Portuguese: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Potawatomi: Odawa — capital of Canada
- Romanian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Russian: Отта́ва (Ottáva) — capital of Canada
- Serbo-Croatian: Отава — capital of Canada
- Serbo-Croatian: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Serbo-Croatian: Otava — capital of Canada
- Sinhalese: ඕටවා (ōṭawā) — capital of Canada
- Slovak: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Slovene: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Spanish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Swedish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Tagalog: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Tajik: Оттава (Ottava) — capital of Canada
- Tamil: ஒட்டாவா (oṭṭāvā) — capital of Canada
- Tatar: Оттава — capital of Canada
- Telugu: అటావా (aṭāvā) — capital of Canada
- Thai: ออตตาวา (ɔ́t-dtaa-wâa) — capital of Canada
- Tibetan: ཨོ་ཏ་ཝ (o ta wa) — capital of Canada
- Turkish: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Turkmen: Ottawa — capital of Canada
- Ukrainian: Отта́ва (Ottáva) — capital of Canada
- Unami: Tawe — capital of Canada
- Urdu: اوٹاوا (oṭāvā) — capital of Canada
- Uyghur: ئوتتاۋا (ottawa) — capital of Canada
- Uzbek: Ottava — capital of Canada
- Vietnamese: Ốt-ta-oa — capital of Canada
- Vietnamese: Ốc Đa Hoa — capital of Canada
- Yiddish: אָטאַװאַ (otava) — capital of Canada
- Catalan: ottawa — a member of the Ottawa people
- Catalan: ottawes — a member of the Ottawa people
- French: outaouais — a member of the Ottawa people
- German: Odawa — a member of the Ottawa people
- Korean: 오타와족 (otawa-jok) — a member of the Ottawa people
- Menominee: Atāwāw — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ojibwe: odaawaa — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ojibwe: odaawaag — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ojibwe: anishinaabe — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ojibwe: anishinaabeg — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ottawa: Nishnaabe — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ottawa: Nishnaabeg — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ottawa: Daawaa — a member of the Ottawa people
- Ottawa: Daawaag — a member of the Ottawa people
- Potawatomi: Odawa — a member of the Ottawa people
- Potawatomi: Odawak — a member of the Ottawa people
- Potawatomi: Neshnabé — a member of the Ottawa people
- Potawatomi: Neshnabék — a member of the Ottawa people
- Unami: Tawe — a member of the Ottawa people
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