Canada

From French Canada, from the Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”). See "Name of Canada" on English Wikipedia.

• (Canada, UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkænədə/

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• Hyphenation: Can‧ada

Canada (plural Canadas)

1. A country in North America.
2. (historical) Lower Canada 1791-1840 (also Canada East 1840-1867, now province of Quebec) or respectively Upper Canada (Canada West, now province of Ontario), often “the Canadas” (or politically, “United Canada” 1840-1867).
3. (historical) (1608-1763) The most active province of New France. Nowadays corresponds to the territory of much of Quebec, Ontario, and several US states (aligning with the Saint Lawrence River and Ottawa River plains and Great Lakes plains, and Laurentian Mountains)
4. A surname​.

• America's Hat (humorous)
• Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory)
• Dominion of Canada (historical)
• Great White North (informal)
• neighbor to the north (US, informal)
• People's Republic of Canada (humorous or derogatory)
• Soviet Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory)

• Canuck
• Kanata

Canada (plural Canadas)

1. (US, informal) A country bordering a larger country that shares many similarities with it, but is overshadowed by the more prominent larger.
   • 2015, Michael DeMocker, The land of waffles, frites, chocolate, meat and, oh yes, culture‎, Louisiana: The Times-Picayune, page 1:

     Belgium is France's Canada.

• (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
• (provinces of Canada) province of Canada; Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Canada)}
• (territories of Canada) territory of Canada; Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon ^{(Category: en:Territories of Canada)}

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑˌdaː/

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• Hyphenation: Ca‧na‧da

Canada n

1. Canada

From the Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.da/

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• Rhymes: -a

Canada m

1. Canada

• canadianisation
• canadianiser
• canadianisme
• Canadien
• canadien
• décanadianisation
• décanadianiser
• recanadianisation
• recanadianiser

Canada m

1. Canada

• canadese

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.na.da/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.na.da/, [ˈkaː.na.da]

From French Canada, from Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”)

Canada f (genitive Canadae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Canada

First declension.

• canadēnsis

Canada

1. Canada

• canadier, kanadier
• canadiar (Nynorsk), kanadiar (Nynorsk)
• canadisk, kanadisk

Canada

1. Canada

• canadiar, kanadiar
• canadisk, kanadisk

• IPA^(key): [kanada]

Canada f

1. Canada

• canadian

Canada m

1. Canada

   Tha Loch Lùthaise ann an Canada.

   Lake Louise is in Canada.

Canada

1. Canada

Canada m

1. Canada