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Canadian

[ kuh-ney-dee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of Canada or its people.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Canada.

Canadian

/ kəˈneɪdɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Canada or its people
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Canada
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • an·ti-Ca·na·di·an adjective noun
  • pro-Ca·na·di·an adjective noun
  • pseu·do-Ca·na·di·an adjective noun
  • trans-Ca·na·di·an adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Canadian1

First recorded in 1560–70; Canad(a) + -ian; compare French canadien
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Example Sentences

The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.

Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.

That gays (and other liberals) should choose Canadian oil because Canada “has no laws prohibiting LGBT lifestyle.”

Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.

But, in Jamaica, Maurice Tomlinson was forced to flee his country after his marriage to his Canadian husband made front-page news.

We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

No one has yet gone far enough down to test the depth of the veins in any Canadian mine.

The foregoing are all the Canadian mines now in work, as far as I have been able to learn, certainly all of any importance.

We lit our pipes and strolled over in silence to the men's quarters, and it was his odd Canadian expression "Gee whiz!"

Under the guise of apparent indifference his mind kept the Canadian under constant observation.

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