Niagara

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(nī-ăg'rə, -ər-ə) pronunciation
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A torrent or flood: "engulfed by the Niagara of Americanisms that flowed over them" (Wall Street Journal).

[After NIAGARA (FALLS)1.]


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    An abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain: alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, downpour, flood, freshet, inundation, overflow, torrent. Chiefly British spate. See big/small/amount.

Niagara-on-the-Lake or Niagara, town (1991 pop. 12,945), S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River. It was settled (1784) by American Loyalists and in 1792 Lieutenant Governor Simcoe made the town the capital of Upper Canada, renaming it Newark. The legislature met there until 1796. Fort George, built (1796-99) to defend the settlement, was taken in 1813 by the United States but retaken in the same year. The town, officially called Niagara-on-the-Lake to distinguish it from the Canadian and U.S. cities of Niagara Falls, is an architectural and historical treasure, with many well-preserved 19th-century buildings. It is the site of the Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival.


‘new fortification or building’, OE nīwe + weorc: Newark City of Peterborough Nieuyrk (1189). Newark on Trent Nottinghamshire Niweweorce (c.1080), Neuuerche (1086) (DB). For the river-name, see Trentham.

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