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adj
Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people; Canadian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, sometimes
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Canajan, Canajun, Canuckistani, Canuckistanian
Antonyms: non-Canadian
adj
Of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Synonym of Canadian French (“the French language as spoken by Francophones in Canada”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Canadian French
Antonyms: none provided
name
Synonym of Canadian English (“the variety of the English language used in Canada”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Canadian English
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, derogatory, informal, sometimes
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Canadian, Canajan, Canajun, Johnny Canuck, hoser
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, derogatory, informal, sometimes
Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Canadian, Canajan, Canajun, Johnny Canuck, hoser
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, derogatory, informal, sometimes
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, skiing, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Canadian, Canajan, Canajun, Johnny Canuck, hoser
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A thing from Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A thing from Canada.
The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, rare
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A thing from Canada.
A Canadian horse or pony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, obsolete, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
informal term for Canadians in general and French Canadians in particular
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: French Canadian
History
Origin uncertain, often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians: * Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from Hawaiian kanaka (“man”), a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic, and New England coasts, from French canaque (“indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia, Kanak”); or, more likely, American whalers’ pidgin, then re-interpreted as Can(adian) + a suffix. (More below on that [specific] putative suffix.) Compare English Kanak and German Kanake. * Some dictionaries suggest it is derived from the first syllable of Canada, or its etymon Laurentian kanata (“village”), or a related word kanuchsa meaning “villager” in either Laurentian or another Iroquoian language; with the second syllable connected to Inuktitut inuk (“man; person”), from Chinook (“Aboriginal people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest”), or another First-Nation language ending like -oc, -uc, or -uq. * Fanciful and unlikely suggestions include German genug von Canada (literally “enough of Canada”) (allegedly uttered by German mercenaries during the American War of Independence), French quelle canule (“what a bore”) (allegedly uttered by the French during a siege of Quebec), or the surname Connaught /ˈkɑ.nəxt/ (supposedly a French-Canadian nickname for the Irish).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
