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Salvage

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈsæl.vɪdʒ//

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

    A man in Salvage, N.L., is being called a 'miracle man' by some residents in the community for lifting a vehicle off his son-in-law, but he says he's no hero.

    Cecil Stuckless was fixing a Jeep in Salvage, Newfoundland with his son-in-law, who was working under the car.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salvaje (“savage, uncivilised”). The name likely derives from an encounter between the Spanish and the local indigenous population.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).