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.