Mississauga

//ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɔː.ɡə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an Algonquian people now living in southern Ontario, Canada; also a member of this race.

    "The Mississaugas also named many of the major watercourses that drained into Lake Ontario along the present-day Toronto shore."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in southern Ontario; a suburb of Toronto.

Synonyms

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saugasauga

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"Mississauga is an area of Ontario located in eastern Canada."

Etymology

From French Mississague, from Ojibwe misizaagii (“inhabitant of large river mouth”) (with reference to the area where the Mississauga River drains into Lake Huron). Doublet of massasauga.

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