Anticosti

American  

[an-tuh-kaw-stee, -kos-tee] / ˌæn təˈkɔ sti, -ˈkɒs ti /

noun

1. an island at the head of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in E Canada, in E Quebec province. 135 miles (217 km) long; 3,043 sq. mi. (7,880 sq. km).

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Anticosti British  

/ ˌæntɪˈkɒstɪ /

noun

1. an island of E Canada, in the Gulf of St Lawrence; part of Quebec. Area: 7881 sq km (3043 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Coleman was on Anticosti for business reasons as well as pleasure.

From Time Magazine Archive

N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fifty miles from the nearest telephone and 40 times that far from his office, Businessman Sheldon Coleman, 65, last week happily cast for salmon in the upper Jupiter River of eastern Canada's Anticosti Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

But nearing the island of Anticosti, they took wing for shore with a parting twitter, and, like Noah's dove, did not return.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

Made a journey to Hudson Bay in 1679; and the following year received a grant of the Island of Anticosti, where he settled with his family.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various