Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: omaha
IPA transcription: ['oʊməh,ɑ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Omaha
    Meaning: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1935
  • Synonyms: Omaha
    Meaning: the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Omaha
  • Synonyms: Omaha
    Meaning: largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest
  • Synonyms: Omaha, Maha
    Meaning: a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in northeastern Nebraska
Usage examples
  • President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska.
  • The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its starting-point, extends eastward to meet the road from Omaha.
  • The train did not proceed rapidly; counting the stoppages, it did not run more than twenty miles an hour, which was a sufficient speed, however, to enable it to reach Omaha within its designated time.
  • Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts, and a large tract which the Mormons, after they were driven from Illinois in 1845, began to colonise.