Canadian

See also: canadian

English

Canadians waving a Canadian flag in Canada

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kə.ˈneɪ.di.ən/, [kʰə.ˈneɪ.ɾi.ən]

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• Rhymes: -eɪdiən
• Hyphenation: Can‧ad‧ian

Etymology 1

From Canada (noun) +‎ -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).

Adjective

Canadian (comparative more Canadian, superlative most Canadian)

1. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its people or culture.
2. (informal) Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English.

Synonyms

• Canajun, Canajan
• Canuck
• Canuckistani, Canuckistanian (slang, derogatory or humorous)

Antonyms

• non-Canadian

Derived terms

• Canadian Alliance
• Canadian bacon (“back bacon”)
• Canadian Bill of Rights
• Canadian canoe
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Canadian clipper
• Canadian dainty
• Canadian English
• Canadian Eskimo Dog, Canadian Eskimo dog
• Canadian Falls
• Canadian football
• Canadian Forces
• Canadian French
• Canadian garlic
• Canadian hemp
• Canadian horse
• Canadianisation
• Canadianise
• Canadianism
• Canadianist
• Canadianization
• Canadianize
• Canadian Rockies
• Canadian Shield
• Canadian studies
• Canadian Tire money
• Canadian waterweed (Elodea canadensis)
• Canadian whisky
• Dano-Canadian
• English Canadian, English-Canadian
• Franco-Canadian
• French Canadian, French-Canadian
• Germano-Canadian
• I'm Canadian
• non-Canadian
• Norwego-Canadian
• Western Canadian Select

 

Translations

of or pertaining to Canada

• Afrikaans: Kanadees
• Albanian: kanadez (sq)
• Amharic: ካናዳዊ (kanadawi)
• Arabic: كَنَدِيّ (kanadiyy)
• Armenian: կանադական (kanadakan)
• Asturian: canadiense (ast)
• Azerbaijani: kanadalı
• Belarusian: кана́дскі (kanádski), кана́дзкі (kanádzki)
• Bulgarian: кана́дски (kanádski)
• Catalan: canadenc (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加拿大的 (zh) (Jiānádà de)

• Czech: kanadský (cs)
• Danish: kanadisk
• Dutch: Canadees (nl)
• Esperanto: kanada
• Estonian: kanada
• Finnish: kanadalainen (fi)
• French: canadien (fr)
• Galician: canadense (gl)
• Georgian: კანადური (ḳanaduri)
• German: kanadisch (de)
• Greek: καναδικός (el) (kanadikós), καναδέζικος (el) (kanadézikos)
• Hawaiian: Kanakā
• Hebrew: קָנָדִי (kanádi)
• Hungarian: kanadai (hu)
• Icelandic: kanadískur
• Interlingua: canadian
• Irish: Ceanadach
• Italian: canadese (it)
• Japanese: カナダの (ja) (Kanada no)
• Kazakh: канадалық (kanadalyq), канада (kanada)
• Korean: 캐나다의 (ko) (kaenadaui), 카나다의 (ko) (kanadaui) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: канадалык (ky) (kanadalık), канада (kanada)
• Latin: canadensis, canadense n
• Latvian: kanādiešu
• Lithuanian: kanadietiškas, kanadiečių
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: канадски (kanadski)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: канад (kanad)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: canadisk, kanadisk

  Nynorsk: canadisk (nn), kanadisk (nn)

• Occitan: canadenc
• Persian: کانادایی (fa) (kânâdâyi)
• Polish: kanadyjski (pl)
• Portuguese: canadense (pt) (Brazil), canadiano (pt) (Portugal)
• Romanian: canadian (ro)
• Russian: кана́дский (ru) (kanádskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Canadach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀надскӣ

  Roman: kànadskī (sh)

• Slovak: kanadský (sk)
• Slovene: kanadski (sl)
• Spanish: canadiense (es)
• Swahili: Kikanada
• Swedish: kanadensisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Kanadyense
• Tajik: канадагӣ (kanadagī)
• Thai: แคนาดา (th) (kɛɛ-naa-daa)
• Turkish: Kanadalı (tr)
• Turkmen: kanadaly
• Ukrainian: кана́дський (kanádsʹkyj), канаді́йський (kanadíjsʹkyj)
• Uzbek: kanadalik (uz), kanada
• Vietnamese: Ca-na-đa
• Welsh: Canadaidd

of or pertaining to Canadian (the language), Canadian English

• Finnish: kanadalainen (fi)
• French: canadien (fr)
• German: kanadisch (de), kanadischenglisch, kanadisch-englisch
• Romanian: canadian (ro)
• Volapük: Kanadänapükik, Kanadäna-Linglänapükik

Noun

Canadian (plural Canadians)

1. A native or inhabitant of Canada.
   • 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 180:

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

2. (sports, informal) Canadian national championship.
   • 2012 March 16, Monte Stewart, “Shantz takes on foes from yesteryear in quest for elusive national crown”, in Global News‎^[1]:

     “If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday.

   • 2015 December 19, Mary Caton, “A legend on LaSalle diamonds for decades”, in The Windsor Star:

     "When we were playing in the Canadians (championships) other teams would come around to watch us do our warm-ups," son Jayme Hall said.

   • 2017 September 21, Bill Doucet, “A scent of success for Hespeler horseshoe pitcher”, in The Cambridge Times:

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

Synonyms

• Canajun, Canajan
• Canuck
• Canuckistani, Canuckistanian (slang, derogatory or humorous)
• hoser

Derived terms

• aboriginal Canadian
• African Canadian, African-Canadian
• Afro-Canadian
• American Canadian, American-Canadian
• Anglo-Canadian
• anglophone Canadian, Anglophone Canadian
• Arab Canadian, Arab-Canadian
• Asian Canadian, Asian-Canadian
• Asio-Canadian
• Danish Canadian, Danish-Canadian
• Dano-Canadian
• English Canadian, English-Canadian
• Euro-Canadian
• European Canadian, European-Canadian
• foreign-born Canadian
• Franco-Canadian
• francophone Canadian, Francophone Canadian
• French Canadian, French-Canadian
• French-speaking Canadian
• German Canadian, German-Canadian
• Germano-Canadian
• Hiberno-Canadian
• Indian Canadian, Indian-Canadian
• Indo-Canadian
• Irish Canadian, Irish-Canadian
• native-born Canadian
• native Canadian
• Native Canadian
• neo-Canadian, Neo-Canadian
• new Canadian, New Canadian
• Norwego-Canadian
• Ukraino-Canadian

 

Related terms

• Canadien (masculine), Canadienne (feminine) (directly borrowed from French)

Translations

person from Canada

• Afrikaans: Kanadees
• Albanian: kanadez (sq) m, kanadeze (sq) f, kanadezë m pl, kanadeze (sq) f pl
• Arabic: كَنَدِيّ m (kanadiyy), كَنَدِيَّة f (kanadiyya)
• Armenian: կանադացի (kanadacʻi)
• Asturian: canadiense (ast) m or f
• Azerbaijani: kanadalı
• Belarusian: кана́дзец m (kanádzjec), кана́дка f (kanádka)
• Bulgarian: кана́дец m (kanádec), кана́дка f (kanádka)
• Catalan: canadenc (ca) m, canadenca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 加拿大人 (gaa¹ naa⁴ daai⁶ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 加拿大人 (Jiānádàrén)

• Corsican: canadianu (co) m, canadiana f, canadese (co) m or f
• Czech: Kanaďan (cs) m, Kanaďanka (cs) f
• Danish: canadier (da) c
• Dutch: Canadees (nl) m, Canadese (nl) f
• Esperanto: (♂♀) kanadano, (explicitly ♂) kanadaniĉo, (explicitly ♀) kanadanino
• Estonian: kanadalane
• Finnish: kanadalainen (fi)
• French: Canadien (fr) m, Canadienne (fr) f
• Galician: canadense (gl) m or f
• Georgian: კანადელი (ḳanadeli)
• German: Kanadier (de) m, Kanadierin (de) f
• Greek: Καναδός (el) m (Kanadós), Καναδέζος (el) m (Kanadézos), Καναδή (el) f (Kanadí), Καναδέζα (el) f (Kanadéza)
• Hawaiian: Kanakā
• Hebrew: קָנָדִי m (kanádi)
• Hungarian: kanadai (hu)
• Icelandic: Kanadamaður m
• Indonesian: orang kanada
• Interlingua: canadiano m, canadiana f
• Irish: Ceanadach m
• Italian: canadese (it) m or f
• Japanese: カナダ人 (カナダじん, Kanadajin)
• Kazakh: канадалық (kanadalyq)
• Korean: 캐나다 사람 (kaenada saram), 캐나다인 (kaenadain)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kanadî

• Kyrgyz: канадалык (ky) (kanadalık)
• Latin: canadēnsis m or f
• Latvian: kanādietis m, kanādiete f
• Lithuanian: kanadietis (lt) m, kanadietė (lt) f
• Macedonian: Канаѓанец m (Kanaǵanec), Канаѓанка f (Kanaǵanka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: canadier (no) m, kanadier (no) m

  Nynorsk: canadiar (nn) m, kanadiar (nn) m

• Occitan: canadenc m, canadenca f
• Persian: کانادایی (fa) (kânâdâyi)
• Polish: Kanadyjczyk (pl) m, Kanadyjka (pl) f
• Portuguese: canadense (pt) m or f (Brazil), canadiano (pt) m (Portugal), canadiana (pt) f (Portugal)
• Romanian: canadian (ro) m, canadiancă f, canadiană (ro) f
• Romansch: canadais m, canadaisa f
• Russian: кана́дец (ru) m (kanádec), кана́дка (ru) f (kanádka)
• Sardinian: canadesu m, canadesa f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кана́ђанин m, Кана́ђа̄нка f

  Roman: Kanáđanin (sh) m, Kanáđānka f

• Slovak: Kanaďan m, Kanaďanka f
• Slovene: Kanadčan (sl) m, Kanadčanka f
• Spanish: canadiense (es) m or f
• Swahili: Mkanada (sw)
• Swedish: kanadensare (sv), kanadensiska (sv) c (female)
• Tagalog: Kanadyense
• Tajik: канадагӣ (kanadagī)
• Thai: คนแคนาดา (kon kɛɛ-naa-daa)
• Turkish: Kanadalı (tr)
• Turkmen: kanadaly
• Ukrainian: кана́дець m (kanádecʹ), кана́дка f (kanádka), канаді́єць m (kanadíjecʹ), канаді́йка f (kanadíjka)
• Uzbek: kanadalik (uz)
• Vietnamese: người Ca-na-đa
• Welsh: Canadiad m or f
• West Frisian: Kanadeesk n

Proper noun

Canadian

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

Translations

Canadian English

• Dutch: Canadees (nl) n, Canadees-Engels n (more precise)
• Finnish: kanadanenglanti (fi)
• French: anglais canadien m
• Georgian: კანადური ინგლისური (ḳanaduri inglisuri), კანადური ინგლისური ენა (ḳanaduri inglisuri ena)
• German: Kanadisch n, (more precisely) kanadisches Englisch n
• Italian: inglese canadese (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: canadisk engelsk m, kanadisk engelsk m

  Nynorsk: canadisk engelsk m, kanadisk engelsk m

• Occitan: anglés canadenc m
• Portuguese: inglês canadense m (Brazil), inglês canadiano m (Portugal)
• Romanian: engleză canadiană f
• Swahili: Kiingereza cha Kanada
• Turkish: Kanadaca, Kanada İngilizcesi (tr)
• Volapük: Kanadänapük, Linglänapük Kanadänik, Kanadäna-Linglänapük

Etymology 2

A name of uncertain origin. The city and town names are after the river.

Proper noun

Canadian

1. 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.
2. A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
3. A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.

See also

• Canadian County

References

• “Canadian” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.