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Canadianization

noun

Etymology

From Canadian + -ization.

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

Definitions

  1. The process of making or becoming Canadian or more Canadian.

    • The Canadianization of their children may have had certain negative effects for immigrant family relations, but it worked well in the interests of assimilation and nation building.
    • While a few works in this second category have analyzed the strategies of churches in promoting the Canadianization of first-generation immigrants, like most institutional studies they provide the view from the head office.
    • A multi-ethnic and a multi-cultural city which once had distinct ethnic neighborhoods but with "Canadianization" of younger population and their desire to be suburbanites, the degree of segregation has relatively decreased.

The neighborhood

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