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Ondo

Ondo proper noun: a surname from Hungarian.

Proper noun (1)

Ondo (plural Ondos)

  1. A surname from Hungarian.

Proper noun (2)

Ondo

  1. A state of Nigeria in the South West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Akure.
  2. A city in Ondo State, Nigeria.
  3. A historical kingdom in Nigeria.
  4. A dialect of Yoruba spoken in Ondo State.

Noun

Ondo (uncountable)

  1. People of Ondo City, Ondo State, and/or Ondo Kingdom, collectively.

Adjective

Ondo (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Ondo City, Ondo State, Ondo Kingdom, their people or their cultures.
  2. Of, from, or pertaining to the Ondo dialect of Yoruba.

Forms of Ondo

pluralOndos

Origin of Ondo

Borrowed * either from Basque ondo (“deep valley, ravine, gully”), * or from Hungarian Ondó, from the given name Ond + -ó (archaic diminutive), hence unrelated to ondó (“semen”).

From Yoruba Òǹdó.

Questions about Ondo

What does Ondo mean?
Ondo means a surname from Hungarian.
What part of speech is Ondo?
Ondo can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.

Words near Ondo in the dictionary

  1. ondioline
  2. ondiolines
  3. ondist
  4. ondists
  5. Ondit
  6. Ondo
  7. ondogram
  8. ondograms
  9. ondograph
  10. ondographs
  11. ondol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ondo (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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