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ALL meanings of ottawa

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  • noun plural ottawa a city in and the capital of Canada, in SE Ontario. 1
  • noun plural ottawa a river in SE Canada, flowing SE along the boundary between Ontario and Quebec into the St. Lawrence at Montreal. 685 miles (1105 km) long. 1
  • noun plural ottawa a city in NE Illinois, SW of Chicago. 1
  • noun plural ottawa a town in E Kansas. 1
  • noun plural ottawa a member of a tribe of Algonquian Indians of Canada, forced into the Lake Superior and Lake Michigan regions by the Iroquois confederacy. 1
  • noun plural ottawa the Ojibwa language as used by the Ottawa Indians. 1
  • noun ottawa a nation in N North America: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 3,690,410 sq. mi. (9,558,160 sq. km). Capital: Ottawa. 1
  • noun ottawa the capital of Canada, in E Ontario on the Ottawa River: name changed from Bytown to Ottawa in 1854. Pop: 883 391 (2011) 0
  • noun ottawa a river in central Canada, rising in W Quebec and flowing west, then southeast to join the St Lawrence River as its chief tributary at Montreal; forms the border between Quebec and Ontario for most of its length. Length: 1120 km (696 miles) 0
  • noun ottawa a member of a North American Indian people of Manitoulin Island and, at various times in the past, other scattered locations south of the upper Great Lakes 0
  • noun ottawa the Algonquian language of this people, a dialect of Ojibwa, also spoken by some groups known as Ojibwa 0
  • adjective ottawa of the Ottawas or their language or culture 0
  • noun ottawa river in SE Canada, forming the border between Ontario & Quebec, flowing southeast into the St. Lawrence: 696 mi (1,120 km) 0
  • noun ottawa capital of Canada, in SE Ontario, on the Ottawa River: pop. 323,000 (met. area, 1,010,000) 0
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