Canada Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Proper noun
    • 1.3.1 Synonyms
    • 1.3.2 Derived terms
    • 1.3.3 Related terms
    • 1.3.4 Translations
    • 1.3.5 References
  • 1.4 See also
• 2 Dutch
  • 2.1 Proper noun
• 3 French
  • 3.1 Pronunciation
  • 3.2 Proper noun
    • 3.2.1 Derived terms
• 4 Italian
  • 4.1 Proper noun
    • 4.1.1 Derived terms
• 5 Norwegian
  • 5.1 Proper noun
    • 5.1.1 Related terms
• 6 Romanian
  • 6.1 Pronunciation
  • 6.2 Proper noun
    • 6.2.1 Declension
    • 6.2.2 Related terms
• 7 Scottish Gaelic
  • 7.1 Proper noun
• 8 Tatar
  • 8.1 Proper noun
    • 8.1.1 Declension

English

Etymology

From the Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian canada (kanata), meaning village or settlement. See "Name of Canada" on Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK, US) IPA: /ˈkæn.ə.də/

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• Hyphenation: Can‧ada

Proper noun

Canada

1. A country in North America; official name: Canada.
2. (historical) Lower Canada or Upper Canada, often "the Canadas". Also Canada East or Canada West.

Synonyms

• Canuckistan, Soviet Canuckistan
• Great White North
• neighbor to the north

Derived terms

Related terms

• Canuck
• Kanata

References

• “Canada” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Jacques Cartier (1545), Relation originale de Jacques Cartier, Paris: Tross [1863], p 48.

See also

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States (

   

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