English Explanatory Dictionary

Ohio River

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A major river in the United States, flowing 981 miles from the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela at Pittsburgh into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.

Word forms

Ohio River

Etymology

From Seneca ohiːyoʼ, a proper name derived from ohiːyoːh (“good river”), itself already containing the term "river" in Seneca. See more at Ohio.

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