Ottawa
Speech parts
1. Ottawa - Noun
2. Ottawa - Proper noun
Meaning
the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)
a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal
a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario
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Examples
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.
What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.
Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.