Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: niagara
IPA transcription: [naɪ'æɡɹə]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Niagara, Niagara_River
    Meaning: a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York
  • Synonyms: Niagara, Niagara_Falls
    Meaning: waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls
Usage examples
  • Says it looks like Niagara Falls.
  • Stratford is just another village of Niagara Falls.
  • The new creature calls it Niagara Falls--why, I am sure I do not know.
  • Sometimes they are sent to make a bridge over Niagara Falls, or to build a dam across a mountain torrent in an hour's time.
  • The coal-mines can be emptied, but so long as the sun shines and the rains fall, Niagara will remain as a source of light, heat, and power.
  • In 1842, when he was thirty-one, he visited Washington, Niagara, and his parents in Pennsylvania, and wrote delightful letters back to his paper.
  • The force of falling water, long used in a petty way by the old water-mills, is just beginning to be employed on a large scale at such points as Niagara.
  • A group of threescore young men from different parts of Canada, from Kingston, Niagara, and Montreal, having noticed advertisements of an easy stage-route from St Paul, set out for the gold-diggings in May 1862.
  • We hear people blaming it in their servants, who can and do go to Niagara, to the South, to the Springs, to Europe, to the seaside; in short, who are always on the move whenever they feel the need of variety to reanimate mind, health, or spirits.
  • I thought that I was on the brink of some tremendous cataract a thousand times deeper than Niagara; some fall where the waters plunged into the depths of the earth; and where, gathering for the terrific descent, all other movements--all dashings and writhings and twistings--were obliterated and lost in the one overwhelming onward rush.