Toledo
Americannoun
plural
Toledos-
Francisco de c1515–84?, Spanish administrator: viceroy of Peru 1569–81.
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a port in NW Ohio, on Lake Erie.
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a city in central Spain, on the Tagus River: the capital of Spain under the Romans.
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a sword or sword blade of finely tempered steel, a formerly made in Toledo, Spain.
noun
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Ancient name: Toletum. a city in central Spain, on the River Tagus: capital of Visigothic Spain, and of Castile from 1087 to 1560; famous for steel and swords since the first century. Pop: 72 549 (2003 est)
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an inland port in NW Ohio, on Lake Erie: one of the largest coal-shipping ports in the world; transportation and industrial centre; university (1872). Pop: 308 973 (2003 est)
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a fine-tapered sword or sword blade
Example Sentences
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In late May, he told a Toledo court he wanted to contest the citation because of the F-150’s driving technology.
“I was like, holy Toledo, this is really the FBI,” he said, recalling the phone call.
From Los Angeles Times
“How can that be? Hasn’t our family lived in Toledo for hundreds of years? Don’t we belong here?”
From Literature
As one former associate tells Springs Toledo about the Boston mobster: “I can’t talk about Joe. He wouldn’t want me to.”
Few Spanish politicians make the case for Latin American liberty as well as Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, a member of Spain’s Congress of Deputies.
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