New France
English edit
Etymology edit
new + France. Calque of French Nouvelle-France. From Middle French Nouvelle France.
Proper noun edit
- (historical) France's former possessions and colonies in North America, including Canada (now Quebec and Ontario and Ohio plains), Acadia (now New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), and Louisiana (now the Mississippi plains), before 1763.
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Translations edit
France's former possessions and colonies in North America
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References edit
- “New France” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.