Torontarian

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adjective

Torontonian: of, from, or pertaining to Toronto (the capital of Ontario, in Canada).

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveTorontarian (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareTorontonian: of, from, or pertaining to Toronto (the capital of Ontario, in Canada).

    I live in London, Ontario, so I hope it will be ticketmaster... if not, would anybody Torontarian be willing to buy some tickets for me?

    1998 January 20, Steve, “Re: Radiohead and Bjork????”, in alt.music.radiohead (Usenet)
    1 more example

    This article is concerned with police relations with visible minorities in Toronto, an aspect of Torontarian society that has drawn the attention of other English academics (Todd and Todd 1992; Todd, 1992, 1993; Jackson 1993).

    1997, in British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, page 239
nounTorontarian (plural Torontarians)

plural Torontarians

  1. rareA Torontonian: a person from, or resident of, Toronto.

    Oh now I feel like a limited Torontarian […]

    2000 April 5, Flare, “Re: Milk carton: My nemesis”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    I shipped a couple dozen of them express to an ex-Winniper now Torontarian a number of years ago.

    2006 August 13, Craig Bennett, “Re: Perogies”, in wpg.general (Usenet)

    Chambers (2003: 107) gives the example of an interloper, an informant whose use of Canadian raising is atypical of Torontarians of his generation.

    2007, Tim Pooley, “The Uneasy Interface”, in Yuji Kawaguchi et al., editors, Corpus-Based Perspectives in Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 175

Origin

Apparently from Toronto + -arian, perhaps with influence from Ontarian.

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APA

Torontarian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Torontarian

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“Torontarian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Torontarian. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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