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adjectivenounproper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəˈneɪ.di.ən//
  • United Kingdom//kəˈnɛjdɪjən//
  • Canada//kəˈneɪ.di.ən//
  • Canada/[kʰəˈneɪ.ɾi.ən]/
  • Australia//kəˈnæɪ.di.ən//

Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.

    After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.

  2. 2

    informalOf, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English.

  3. 3

    informalOf, belonging to, or relating to Canadian French.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat- Laurentian kanatader. French Canadabor. English Canada Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Canadian From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of Canada.

    Even the Canadians have gone to war against them! They never go to war against anybody!

  2. 2

    informalCanadian national championship.

    “If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday.

    "When we were playing in the Canadians (championships) other teams would come around to watch us do our warm-ups," son Jayme Hall said.

    “With it being Canadians, I’m just, a little bit, not as good as the top girls are,” she said, despite playing in the Canadians in Belleville in 2013.

  3. 3

    canoe (short for Canadian canoe, as opposed to kayak)

proper noun

  1. 1

    informalThe English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English.

  2. 2

    An epoch from to million years ago, a subdivision of the Ordovician.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River.

  2. 2

    A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

  3. 3

    A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.

  4. 4

    A suburb of the City of Ballarat, central western Victoria, Australia.

Etymology

A name of uncertain origin. The city and town names are after the river, while the Australian suburb is named after an 1850's Canadian gold digger known as Swift.

Forms

plural
Canadians
comparative
more Canadian
superlative
most Canadian
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