Canada

See also: canada, Canadá, Canadà, cañada, and Ca-na-đa

English

Etymology

From French Canada, from the Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”). See "Name of Canada" on English Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkænədə/

  • Audio (CA)

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  • Audio (GA)

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• (General American, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [kʰɛənədə] ~ [kʰeənədə]
• Hyphenation: Can‧a‧da

Proper noun

Canada (plural Canadas)

2. A country in North America.
   • 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 219:

     Father narrated the story of how Canada developed over a short period to surpass other countries, including Britain, from which it had emerged.

3. (historical) Lower Canada 1791-1840 (also Canada East 1840-1867, now province of Quebec) or respectively Upper Canada (Canada West, now province of Ontario), often “the Canadas” (or politically, “United Canada” 1840-1867).
4. (historical) (1608-1763) The most active province of New France. Nowadays corresponds to the territory of much of Quebec, Ontario, and several US states (aligning with the Saint Lawrence River and Ottawa River plains and Great Lakes plains, and Laurentian Mountains)
5. A surname​.

Synonyms

• America's Hat (humorous)
• Canadia (mildly humorous)
• Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory)
• Dominion of Canada (historical)
• Great White North (informal)
• neighbor to the north (US, informal)
• People's Republic of Canada (humorous or derogatory)
• Soviet Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Atlantic Canada
• blame Canada
• Canada balsam
• Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
• Canada Day
• Canada Dry
• Canada dogwood = bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
• Canada East = Lower Canada
• Canada Games
• Canada goldenrod
• Canada goose, (Branta canadensis)
• Canada Indian
• Canada jay = grey jay
• Canada lily (Lilium canadense)
• Canada lynx (Felis canadensis)
• Canada mayflower = wild lily of the valley (Maianthemum canadense)

• Canada Pension Plan
• Canada plum (Prunus nigra and its fruit)
• Canada poplar = Carolina poplar (Populus × canadensis)
• Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
• Canada Post
• Canada Post Corporation
• Canada rice (Zizania palustris or Zizania aquatica)
• Canadarm
• Canada robin = cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
• Canada Savings Bond
• Canada thistle (Circium arvense)
• Canada violet (Viola canadensis)
• Canada West = Upper Canada

• Canada yew = ground hemlock (Taxus canadensis)
• Canadian
• Canadiana
• Canadianism
• Canadianize
• Canadianist
• Canadien
• Canadienne
• Canajan
• Canajun
• Central Canada = Central provinces
• English Canada
• French Canada
• Lower Canada
• O Canada
• Upper Canada

Related terms

• Canuck
• Kanata

Translations

country in North America

• Abenaki: Kanada
• Abkhaz: Канада (Ḳanada)
• Adyghe: Канадэ (Kānādă)
• Afrikaans: Kanada (af)
• Akan: Kanada
• Albanian: Kanadaja
• Alemannic German: Kanada n
• Amharic: ካናዳ (kanada)
• Arabic: كَنَدَا‎ (ar) f (kanadā), كَنَدَة‎ f (kanada) (archaic)
• Aragonese: Canadá m
• Aramaic: ܩܢܕܐ‎ (qanadā)
• Armenian: Կանադա (hy) (Kanada)
• Assamese: কানাডা (kanada)
• Asturian: Canadá (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: Kanada (az)
• Bashkir: Канада (Kanada)
• Basque: Kanada (eu)
• Bavarian: Kanada
• Belarusian: Кана́да f (Kanáda)
• Bengali: কানাডা (bn) (kanaḍa)
• Bislama: Kanada
• Breton: Kanada
• Bulgarian: Кана́да f (Kanáda)
• Burmese: ကနေဒါ (ka.neda)
• Catalan: Canadà (ca)
• Cebuano: Canada
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 加拿大 (yue) (gaa¹ naa⁴ daai⁶)

  Hakka: 加拿大 (Kâ-nâ-thai)

  Mandarin: 加拿大 (zh) (Jiānádà)

  Min Nan: 加拿大 (Ka-ná-tāi)

• Chuvash: Канада (Kanada)
• Cornish: Kanada
• Cree: ᑳᓇᑕ (kaanata)

  Plains Cree: kânata

• Czech: Kanada (cs) f
• Danish: Canada (da) n
• Dhivehi: ކެނެޑާ‎ (keneḍā)
• Dutch: Canada (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཀེ་ན་ཌ་ (ke na ḍa)
• Esperanto: Kanado (eo)
• Estonian: Kanada (et)
• Farefare: Kanada
• Faroese: Kanada n
• Finnish: Kanada (fi)
• French: Canada (fr) m
• Galician: Canadá (gl) m
• Georgian: კანადა (ḳanada)
• German: Kanada (de) n
• Greek: Καναδάς (el) m (Kanadás)
• Greenlandic: Kanata
• Guaraní: Kanatã
• Gujarati: કેનેડા (keneḍā)
• Haitian Creole: Kanada
• Hausa: Kyanadà f
• Hawaiian: Kanakā
• Hebrew: קָנָדָּה‎ (he) f (kánada)
• Hindi: कनाडा (hi) m (kanāḍā)
• Hungarian: Kanada (hu)
• Icelandic: Kanada (is) n
• Ido: Kanada (io)
• Igbo: Canada
• Ilocano: Canada
• Indonesian: Kanada (id)
• Interlingua: Canada
• Inuktitut: ᑲᓇᑕ (iu) (kanata)
• Inupiaq: Canada, Kanata
• Irish: Ceanada m
• Italian: Canada (it) m
• Japanese: カナダ (ja) (Kanada), 加奈陀 (ja) (Kanada)
• Javanese: Kanada
• Kalenjin: ^{(please verify)} k
• Kamba: Kanada
• Kannada: ಕೆನಡಾ (kn) (kenaḍā)
• Kapampangan: Canada
• Kazakh: Канада (Kanada)
• Khmer: កាណាដា (km) (kaanaadaa)
• Korean: 캐나다 (ko) (Kaenada), 카나다 (ko) (Kanada) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کەنەدا‎ (keneda)

  Northern Kurdish: Keneda (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Канада (ky) (Qanada)
• Lakota: Uŋčíyapi Makȟóčhe (literally “Grandmother's [Queen Victoria's] country”)
• Lao: ການາດາ (kā nā dā)
• Latin: Canada (la) f
• Latvian: Kanāda (lv) f
• Limburgish: Kanneda (li) n

• Lingala: Kanadá
• Lithuanian: Kanada (lt) f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Kanada (nds) n

• Lower Sorbian: Kanada
• Luo: Kanada
• Luxembourgish: Kanada (lb) n
• Macedonian: Канада (mk) f (Kanada)
• Malay: Kanada (ms)
• Malayalam: കാനഡ (kānaḍa)
• Maltese: il-Kanada f
• Manx: Yn Chanadey
• Marathi: कॅनडा (kĕnḍā)
• Mongolian: Канад (mn) (Kanad)
• Nahuatl: Canauhtlān
• Nauruan: Canada
• Navajo: Deeteel bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Canadà
• Nepali: क्यानाडा (ne) (kyānāḍā)
• Norman: Cannada m
• Northern Sami: Kanáda
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Canada (no) n, Kanada (no) n

  Nynorsk: Canada (nn) n, Kanada (nn) n

• Occitan: Canadà (oc) m
• Ojibwe: Zhaaganaashiiwaki
• Oromo: Canada
• Ossetian: Канадӕ (Kanadæ)
• Pashto: کاناډا‎ (ps) (kānāḋā)
• Persian: کانادا‎ (fa) (kânâdâ)
• Piedmontese: Canadà
• Polish: Kanada (pl) f
• Portuguese: Canadá (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Eastern Punjabi: ਕੈਨੇਡਾ (kaineḍā)

  Western Punjabi: کینیڈا‎, کنیڈا‎ m (knaeḍā)

• Quechua: Kanada
• Romanian: Canada (ro) f
• Russian: Кана́да (ru) f (Kanáda)
• Samoan: Kanata
• Samogitian: Kanada
• Sanskrit: केनडा (kenaḍā)
• Santali: ᱠᱟᱱᱟᱰᱟ (kanaḍa)
• Scots: Canadae
• Scottish Gaelic: Canada
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ка̀нада f

  Roman: Kànada (sh) f

• Sicilian: Canadà m
• Sindhi: ڪئناڊا‎
• Sinhalese: කැනඩාව (kænaḍāwa)
• Slovak: Kanada (sk) f
• Slovene: Kȃnada (sl) f
• Somali: Canada
• Spanish: Canadá (es) m
• Swahili: Kanada (sw)
• Swedish: Kanada (sv) n
• Tagalog: Kanada
• Tahitian: Tanata
• Tajik: Канада (tg) (Kanada)
• Tamil: கனடா (ta) (kaṉaṭā)
• Tatar: Канада (Qanada)
• Telugu: కెనడా (te) (kenaḍā)
• Tetum: Kanadá
• Thai: แคนาดา (th) (kɛɛ-naa-daa)
• Tibetan: ཁ་ནའ་ཏ (kha na' ta)
• Tok Pisin: Kanada
• Tongan: Kānata
• Tsonga: Canada
• Turkish: Kanada (tr)
• Turkmen: Kanada
• Ukrainian: Кана́да (uk) f (Kanáda)
• Urdu: کینیڈا‎ (kainaiḍā), کناڈا‎ (kanāḍā)
• Uyghur: كانادا‎ (kanada)
• Uzbek: Kanada (uz)
• Venetian: Canada
• Veps: Kanad
• Vietnamese: Ca-na-đa, Gia Nã Đại (加拿大)
• Volapük: Kanadän (vo)
• Welsh: Canada (cy)
• West Frisian: Kanada (fy)
• Wolof: Kanadaa
• Yiddish: קאַנאַדע‎ f (kanade)
• Yoruba: Kánádà
• Zhuang: Gyahnazda
• Zulu: IKhanada

Noun

Canada (plural Canadas)

1. (US, informal) A country bordering a larger country that shares many similarities with it, but is overshadowed by the more prominent larger.
   • 2015, Michael DeMocker, The land of waffles, frites, chocolate, meat and, oh yes, culture‎^[1], Louisiana: The Times-Picayune, page 1:

     Belgium is France's Canada.

See also

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States
• (provinces of Canada) province of Canada; Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Canada)}
• (territories of Canada) territory of Canada; Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon ^{(Category: en:Territories of Canada)}

References

• “Canada” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Jacques Cartier (1545), Relation originale de Jacques Cartier, Paris: Tross [1863], p 48.

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Canada

1. Canada (a country in North America)

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• Kanada (dated, superseded)

Etymology

Probably borrowed from French Canada.

The hamlet is first attested as Canada in 1954. It was named after the country. Originally the name of a farmhouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.naːˌdaː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ca‧na‧da

Proper noun

Canada n

2. Canada (a country in North America).
3. A hamlet in Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands.

   Synonym: Kanada (Frisian, unofficial), Kannede (Low Saxon, unofficial)

Derived terms

• Canadees

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Franco-Provençal

Proper noun

Canada

1. Canada (a country in North America)

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French

Etymology

From the Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.da/

  • Audio (France, Paris)

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ka.na.dɑ/
  • IPA^(key): [ka.na.ˈdɑ]
  • IPA^(key): [ka.na.ˈdɔ]
• Rhymes: -a

Proper noun

Canada m

2. Canada (a country in North America)

Derived terms

• canadianisation
• canadianiser
• canadianisme
• Canadien
• canadien
• décanadianisation
• décanadianiser
• Gendarmerie royale du Canada
• recanadianisation
• recanadianiser

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.na.da/
• Rhymes: -anada
• Hyphenation: Cà‧na‧da

Proper noun

Canada m

2. Canada (a country in North America)

Derived terms

• canadese

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Latin

Etymology

From French Canada, from Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.na.da/, [ˈkänäd̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.na.da/, [ˈkäːnäd̪ä]

Proper noun

Canada f sg (genitive Canadae); first declension

2. (New Latin) Canada (a country in North America)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Canada
Genitive	Canadae
Dative	Canadae
Accusative	Canadam
Ablative	Canadā
Vocative	Canada

Derived terms

• canadēnsis

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Canada

2. Canada (a country in North America)

Derived terms

• kanadagås

Related terms

• canadier, kanadier
• canadisk, kanadisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Canada

2. Canada (a country in North America)

Derived terms

• kanadagås

Related terms

• canadiar, kanadiar
• canadisk, kanadisk

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kanada]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Canada f

2. Canada (a country in North America)

Declension

gender f	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Canada
Gen/Dat	Canadei

Related terms

• canadian

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Sardinian

Proper noun

Canada ?

1. Canada (a country in North America)

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Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Canada m

2. Canada (a country in North America)

   Tha Loch Lùthaise ann an Canada.

   Lake Louise is in Canada.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Canada n (genitive Canadas)

1. Dated spelling of Kanada (“Canada”).

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Venetian

Proper noun

Canada m

2. Canada (a country in North America)

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Welsh

Proper noun

Canada f

1. Canada (a country in North America)

Derived terms

• Canadiad
• Canadaidd

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Canada	Ganada	Nghanada	Chanada
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.