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Ohio

proper noun

  1. American state
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Pronunciation: /oʊˈhaɪoʊ/ / /əˈhaɪoʊ/ / /əˈhaɪəʊ/

name

Etymology: From Seneca Ohi꞉yoʼ, a proper name derived from ohi꞉yo꞉h (“good river”). The name of the Allegheny river, which the Lenape and Iroquois considered to be part of the same single river as the Ohio, means the same thing in Unami.

  1. A state of the United States. Capital and largest city: Columbus.

    Mountweazel, the encyclopedia indicates, was born in Bangs, Ohio, in 1942, only to die “at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine.”

    The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.

  2. A river in the United States, flowing 981 miles from the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania through Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois along state borders and emptying into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.
  3. Ellipsis of Ohio University.
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