Dictionary entry details
• CANADA (noun)
Meaning:
A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world
Instance hypernyms:
North American country; North American nation (a country on the North American continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Canada"):
Saint Lawrence; Saint Lawrence River; St. Lawrence; St. Lawrence River (a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic)
Ontario (a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada)
Yukon; Yukon River (a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea)
Quebec (the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British)
Saskatchewan (one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada)
Yukon; Yukon Territory (a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s)
Columbia; Columbia River (a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring)
Great Lakes (a group of 5 lakes in central North America)
Hudson Bay (an inland sea in northern Canada)
Labrador Peninsula; Labrador-Ungava Peninsula (a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Mackenzie; Mackenzie River (a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea)
Niagara; Niagara River (a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York)
Ottawa; Ottawa river; Outaouais (a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal)
Arctic Archipelago (all the islands that lie north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle)
Nunavut (an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago)
Baffin Island (the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay)
Canadian Maritime Provinces; Maritime Provinces; Maritimes (the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)
Alberta (one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals)
British Columbia (a province in western Canada)
Manitoba (one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada)
Newfoundland and Labrador (a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949)
Northwest Territories (a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut)
Meronyms (members of "Canada"):
Canadian (a native or inhabitant of Canada)
Domain member category:
Department of Justice Canada; DoJC (an agency of the Canadian government that provides litigation and legal advice and opinions to the government)
Domain member region:
metis (a half-breed of white and American Indian parentage)
returning officer (the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results)
Dominion Day; July 1 (a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867)
dog sled; dog sleigh; dogsled (a sled pulled by dogs)
Toronto (the provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada))
Security Intelligence Review Committee; SIRC (an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies)
CISC; Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada (an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies)
Communications Security Establishment; CSE (Canadian agency that gathers communications intelligence and assist law enforcement and security agencies)
Canadian Security Intelligence Service; CSIS (Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government)
Poppy Day; Remembrance Day; Remembrance Sunday (the Sunday nearest to November 11 when those who died in World War I and World War II are commemorated)
Holonyms ("Canada" is a part of...):
North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Holonyms ("Canada" is a member of...):
British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and its dependencies and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states but owe allegiance to the British Crown)
NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)
