Canadian
[kə'neɪdɪən] or [kə'nedɪən]
Definition
(noun.) a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Canada.
(adj.) of or relating to Canada or its people .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Canada.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada.
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Definition
adj. and n. pertaining to Canada: a native of Canada.—Canada balsam (see Balsam).
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Examples
- The bridge, 800 feet long, is a single span, supported by four enormous cables of wire stretching from the Canadian cliff to the opposite United States cliff. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Great preparations were made at Sarnia, the Canadian town opposite Port Huron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Canadian lumber was used principally in this industry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He has been showing it ever since the days when he was a newsboy on the trains of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railroad and the Michigan Central. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Excellent Canadian toboggans are sold in Montreux. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was organized in 1897, and made agreements to erect coast stations for the Italian, Canadian, and Newfoundland governments, and for Lloyd’s. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Try Canadian Pacific Railway, said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was the railway that altered the Canadian outlook. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Edison supplies an interesting reminiscence of the old man and his environment in those early Canadian days. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A trace of the Canadian environment is seen in the fact that Edison's elder brother was named William Pitt, after the great English statesman. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The note-book of a missionary, among the Canadian fugitives, contains truth stranger than fiction. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He called these markings _Eozoon Canadense_ (the Canadian dawn-animal). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At one time an ice-jam had broken the cable-line between Port Huron, in Michigan, and Sarnia, over the Canadian line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The earliest French settlers in Canada were Basque, and Basque names are frequent among the French Canadians to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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