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CANADIAN PROVINCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("Canadian province" is a kind of...):
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Instance hyponyms:
Alberta (one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals)
British Columbia (a province in western Canada)
Manitoba (one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada)
New Brunswick (a province in southeastern Canada)
Newfoundland and Labrador (a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949)
Nova Scotia (the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns)
Ontario (a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada)
Prince Edward Island (an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; the smallest province of Canada)
Quebec (the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British)
Saskatchewan (one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada)
