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conestoga

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for conestoga.

Editorial note

There was a Coles inside Fairview and Conestoga malls taking up the space of a typical mall store.

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Quick take

A river in Pennsylvania, United States.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of conestoga gathered in one view.

noun

A river in Pennsylvania, United States.

noun

(now historical) Synonym of Susquehannock, a member of a North Iroquoian people formerly living in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

noun

(now historical) A type of draft horse developed in Pennsylvania.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for conestoga.

Example sentences

1

There was a Coles inside Fairview and Conestoga malls taking up the space of a typical mall store.

2

Believing [1], the wreck has already been found in 2009 and identified to be the USS Conestoga in October 2015.

3

We stopped taking Conestoga wagons from New York to California for the same reason.

4

I have previously taught courses in operating systems, algorithms, and web development part time at Conestoga College ~2015-2018.

5

Ross’s great-great-grandfather crossed the mountains in a Conestoga wagon and homesteaded this place.

6

You no longer need to cross the Atlantic in a Conestoga wagon.

7

Yes, Confederation and Conestoga are just jam-packed with immigrant entrepreneurs.

8

With the University of Waterloo and Conestoga College, Kitchener-Waterloo is a hot bed of engineering and CS talent.

9

Simple: pay to enroll at Conestoga College.

10

Autarchy is a dream, sci-fi movies prove it regularly design autonomous starship with a small set of humans traveling the galaxy, in the past that was Conestoga wagon, equally nomadic life and so one.

11

An excellent pool of talent with UWaterloo(excellent Engineering/CS programs with a focus on entrepreneurship), Laurier(Well respected business program), and Conestoga College (Well respected Graphic Design Program) 3.

12

We're still in the exploration and settlement stage, and while trains may be more energy efficient, what we need is a Conestoga Wagon that can be operated and maintained by the settlers themselves while they live off the land and develop the first homesteads.

Quote examples

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"Conestoga Wagons" and "Longhouses" must have been answers to test questions in at least five of twelve grades.

2

This has caused the rise of an entire industry, in which so-called institutions of higher learning (Conestoga, Lambton, Confederation) have 99% Indian "students" that work off campus, destroying the local job and housing markets.

3

This scene mirrors one from Heinlein's "Rocketship Galileo", where the esteemed nuclear physicist visits the mother and father of one of the teens, and the mother draws on the family history where her great-grandparents as teenagers crossed the country on a Conestoga wagon.

4

This has caused the rise of an entire industry, in which so-called institutions of higher learning (Lambton, Confederation, and the example the article uses, Conestoga) have 99% Indian "students" that work off campus, destroying the local job and housing markets.

Proper noun examples

1

Contrast this to Canadian colleges like Centennial, Humber, Conestoga, etc.

2

The company I used to work for (EER) bought his company to get the IP to his rocket (Conestoga) and tried to go into private space launches, but the single launch in 1995 was a failure.

3

Conestoga College in Kitchener-Waterloo, most notoriously, increased their foreign student enrollment by ~1500% - to nearly 30,000 students, 3/4 of the student population - putting enormous pressure on the city (which is not a very big city).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use conestoga in a sentence?

There was a Coles inside Fairview and Conestoga malls taking up the space of a typical mall store.

What does conestoga mean?

A river in Pennsylvania, United States.

What part of speech is conestoga?

conestoga is commonly used as noun.