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Canadian

adj
/kəˈneɪ.di.ən/CA

Etymology

A name of uncertain origin. The city and town names are after the river, while the Australian suburb is named after an 1850's Canadian gold digger known as Swift.

  1. derived from *-nat-✻
  2. derived from kanata — “village, settlement”
  3. borrowed from Canada
  4. formed as canadian — “Canada + -ian”

Definitions

  1. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.

    • After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.

  2. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English.

  3. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian French.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A native or inhabitant of Canada.

      • Even the Canadians have gone to war against them! They never go to war against anybody!

    2. Canadian national championship.

      • “If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday.
      • "When we were playing in the Canadians (championships) other teams would come around to watch us do our warm-ups," son Jayme Hall said.
      • “With it being Canadians, I’m just, a little bit, not as good as the top girls are,” she said, despite playing in the Canadians in Belleville in 2013.

    3. canoe (short for Canadian canoe, as opposed to kayak)

    4. The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada

      The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English.

    5. An epoch from to million years ago, a subdivision of the Ordovician.

    6. The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the…

      The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River.

    7. A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

    8. A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.

    9. A suburb of the City of Ballarat, central western Victoria, Australia.

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Derived

Canadian Alliance, Canadian as maple syrup, Canadian bacon, Canadian Bill of Rights, Canadian canoe, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian clipper, Canadian dainty, Canadian English, Canadian Eskimo Dog, Canadian Falls, Canadian football, Canadian Forces, Canadian French, Canadian garlic, Canadian hemp, Canadian horse, Canadianisation, Canadianise, Canadianism, Canadianist, Canadianization, Canadianize, Canadian Lead, Canadian Rockies, Canadian Shield, Canadian studies, Canadian Tire money, Canadian waterweed, Canadian West, Canadian whisky, I'm Canadian, non-Canadian, Western Canadian Select

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Canadian. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at canadian. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at canadian

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA