Canada

Meanings

Proper Noun

• country North America (continent).
• 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).
• (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)

Noun

• A country bordering a larger country that shares many similarities with it, but is overshadowed by the more prominent larger.

Related

Similar words

• America's Hat
• Canadia
• Canuckistan
• Dominion of Canada
• Great White North
• neighbor to the north
• People's Republic of Canada
• Soviet Canuckistan

Origin

• From French Canada, from the Laurentian kanata. See Name of Canada.