ontario

Other forms of ontario

plural

ontarios·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ontario

What does ontario mean?

ontario means "the smallest of the Great Lakes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ontario?

ontario has 4 syllables: on-tar-i-o. The stress falls on "tar". In IPA it is /ɑnˈtɛɹioʊ/.

What is another word for ontario?

Close synonyms include Lake Ontario. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ontario a common word?

ontario is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.