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NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "Newfoundland and Labrador"):
Labrador (the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada)
Saint John's; St. John's (a port and provincial capital of Newfoundland)
Holonyms ("Newfoundland and Labrador" is a part of...):
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)