Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A torrent or flood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A large waterfall on the Niagara River near Buffalo remarkable for the volume and constancy of the water flowing over it. That part of the waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; the U. S. portion is called the American Falls.
- noun A large flow, used figuratively.
- proper noun A river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, which forms the boundary between Ontario and New York.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
river (theNiagara River ) which flows fromLake Erie , overNiagara Falls intoLake Ontario ; the geographical region of the United States and Canada inproximity to this river. - proper noun A
town inNew York state. - noun figuratively A
flood ,torrent , oroutpouring , especially one ofmassive proportions . - noun A
Niagara grape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York
- noun waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The _Reminiscences_ of Mrs.J. G. Currie, born at Niagara in 1829 and living there at the time of the trouble, are printed in the _Niagara Hist.
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NIAGARA FALLS - Erie and Niagara counties have been added to the quarantine list in an effort to stem the spread of a pesky beetle that attacks and kills ash trees.
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NIAGARA FALLS, NY - Niagara county man, 34-year-old Brad Fisher, is charged with intentionally torching his own home.
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NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student.
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NIAGARA FALLS, ONT (WIVB) - Very few have taken a death defying plunge over the Niagara and lived to tell about it.
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) - Governor Paterson will be in Niagara falls Wednesday for a town hall meeting as he tries to solve some massive state budget problems.
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Everything in Niagara is parochial, and resources are so scarce, that I doubt there will ever be a meaningful regional transit initiative.
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Organized labour in Niagara is unlikely to forget this flip flop.
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What do you do if those ubiquitous bus loads and limo trains tend to bring out the sweet drinkers (as is often the case here in Niagara)?
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What do you do if those ubiquitous bus loads and limo trains tend to bring out the sweet drinkers (as is often the case here in Niagara)?
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