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Tkaronto

Tkaronto is the alternative form of Toronto.

Meaning of Toronto

Proper noun

Toronto

  1. The capital city of Ontario, Canada and the largest city in Canada.
    • As Toronto slowly comes back to life after two years of repeated lockdowns and closures, the wreckage of the pandemic is surfacing like cigarette butts in melted snow drifts.2022 April 18, Catherine Porter, “A ‘Wild West’ of Marijuana Shops Grows in Toronto”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022
    Synonyms:
    Big Smoke, Hogtown, Hollywood North, Muddy York, The 6, The North, Queen City, T.O., York
  2. A lakeside suburb of Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Lake Macquarie.
  3. An unincorporated community in the township of Lot 23, Grenville Parish, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
  4. A village in County Durham, England.
  5. A former unincorporated community in Woodside Township, now a suburb of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
  6. A ghost town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.

See all 11 meanings of Toronto

Origin of Tkaronto

Learned borrowing from Mohawk tkaronto (“where trees stand in water”).

Questions about Tkaronto

What is Tkaronto the alternative form of?
Tkaronto is the alternative form of Toronto.

Words near Tkaronto in the dictionary

  1. Tkac
  2. Tkachenko
  3. Tkachenkos
  4. Tkachuk
  5. Tkachuks
  6. Tkaronto
  7. TKD
  8. TKE
  9. tkemali
  10. TKI
  11. TKIP

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tkaronto (page history and authors); Toronto (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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