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Kawartha

Kawartha is the ellipsis of Kawartha Lakes.

Meaning of Kawartha Lakes

Proper noun

Kawartha Lakes

  1. A chain of lakes Ontario, Canada, that form the upper watershed of the Trent River.
  2. A city in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.

Origin of Kawartha

From Ojibwe Ka-wa-tha, from Gaa-waategamaag (“Land of Reflections”). Coined in 1895, by Martha Whetung, a member of the Curve Lake First Nations.

Words formed from Kawartha

Questions about Kawartha

What is Kawartha the ellipsis of?
Kawartha is the ellipsis of Kawartha Lakes.

Words near Kawartha in the dictionary

  1. Kawanuma
  2. Kawar
  3. Kawarau
  4. kawarimi
  5. Kawarren
  6. Kawartha
  7. Kawartha Lakes
  8. Kawas
  9. Kawasaki
  10. Kawasaki disease
  11. Kawasaki syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kawartha (page history and authors); Kawartha Lakes (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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