Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ottawa

3 senses of ottawa

Sense 1
Ottawa -- (a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin -- (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Sense 2
Outaouais, Ottawa, Ottawa river -- (a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")

Sense 3
Ottawa, Canadian capital, capital of Canada -- (the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec))
       INSTANCE OF=> national capital -- (the capital city of a nation)