BRITISH COLUMBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does British Columbia mean? 

• BRITISH COLUMBIA (noun)
  The noun BRITISH COLUMBIA has 1 sense:

1. a province in western Canada

  Familiarity information: BRITISH COLUMBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITISH COLUMBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A province in western Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "British Columbia"):

Pacific Northwest (a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia)

Nanaimo (a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island to the west of Vancouver)

Victoria (capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island)

Vancouver (a port city in southwestern British Columbia on an arm of the Pacific Ocean opposite Vancouver Island; Canada's chief Pacific port and third largest city)

Vancouver Island (an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America)

Inland Passage; Inside Passage (a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska)

Queen Charlotte Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia)

Selkirk Mountains (a range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia)

Takakkaw (a waterfall in southeastern British Columbia; the highest waterfall in Canada (1250 feet high))

Domain member region:

Vancouver Island (an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America)

Holonyms ("British Columbia" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

His prospecting led him through the Dakotas, Idaho, and eastern Oregon, and on into the mountains of British Columbia.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Potential fisheries catches will decrease by more than 50 per cent in many regions in the South Pacific,” says William Cheung, associate professor, University of British Columbia.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

The researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of British Columbia analyzed tumor samples from more than 2,500 patients with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, one of the most common forms of the disease.

(Study finds new clues in understanding relapse in breast cancer, Agência Brasil)