TORONTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Toronto mean? 

• TORONTO (noun)
  The noun TORONTO has 1 sense:

1. the provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)

  Familiarity information: TORONTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORONTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

provincial capital (the capital city of a province)

Meronyms (parts of "Toronto"):

CN Tower (a tower in Toronto; 1815 feet tall for broadcasting widely)

Domain region:

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

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

Ontario (a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada)

 Context examples 

A research team from the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada, launched a search for noninvasive biomarkers to diagnose prostate cancer and predict whether it’s likely to spread.

(Biomarker Signatures of Prostate Cancer, NIH)

The researchers obtained vehicle exhaust from a busy street in downtown Toronto and concentrated the fine particles before delivering them through an oxygen-type mask.

(Combatting epigenetic effects from outdoor air pollution, NIH)

The most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm, suggests a new study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.

(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Using cells from mice and human livers, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute researchers demonstrated for the first time how under specific conditions, such as obesity, liver CD8+ T cells, white blood cells which play an important role in the control of viral infections, become highly activated and inflammatory, reprogramming themselves into disease-driving cells.

(When Liver Immune Cells Turn Bad, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and University of Toronto have identified the molecular mechanism that leads to the death of neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS or motor neurone disease) and a common form of frontotemporal dementia.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)