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NIAGARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Niagara mean? 

NIAGARA (noun)
  The noun NIAGARA has 2 senses:

1. waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Fallsplay

2. a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New Yorkplay

  Familiarity information: NIAGARA used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NIAGARA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Niagara; Niagara Falls

Instance hypernyms:

falls; waterfall (a steep descent of the water of a river)

Meronyms (parts of "Niagara"):

American Falls (a part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo))

Canadian Falls; Horseshoe Falls (a part of Niagara Falls in Ontario)

Holonyms ("Niagara" is a part of...):

Ontario (a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada)

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Niagara; Niagara River (a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Niagara; Niagara River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Meronyms (parts of "Niagara"):

Niagara; Niagara Falls (waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls)

Holonyms ("Niagara" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)


 Context examples 


There’s something throbbing in my head now, like a docker’s hammer, but that morning I seemed to have all Niagara whizzing and buzzing in my ears.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara; after which, I was quite in the dark for another minute, and then my box began to rise so high, that I could see light from the tops of the windows.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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