CANADIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canadian mean? 

• CANADIAN (noun)
  The noun CANADIAN has 2 senses:

1. a native or inhabitant of Canada

2. a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma

  Familiarity information: CANADIAN used as a noun is rare.

• CANADIAN (adjective)
  The adjective CANADIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Canada or its people

  Familiarity information: CANADIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANADIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Canadian" is a kind of...):

North American (a native or inhabitant of North America)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Canadian"):

French Canadian (a Canadian descended from early French settlers and whose native language is French)

bluenose; Nova Scotian (a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia)

Quebecois (a native or inhabitant of Quebec (especially one who speaks French))

Holonyms ("Canadian" is a member of...):

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

Derivation:

Canadian (of or relating to Canada or its people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Canadian; Canadian River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Canadian" is a part of...):

Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)

OK; Okla.; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

• CANADIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Canada or its people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

Canadian (a native or inhabitant of Canada)

 Context examples 

NCCTG consists of a network of more than 1,000 cancer specialists at community clinics, hospitals and medical centers in 25 states in US, two Canadian provinces and Mexico.

(North Central Cancer Treatment Group, NCI Thesaurus)

Canadian researchers measured the levels of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in the women's blood at 24 weeks of pregnancy, and again one week following delivery.

(Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Asthma Risk in Children by One-Third, VOA)

This acknowledgment comprises about 4-6 years of university study in total and is a degree conferred by American and Canadian institutions for educators moving on in their field.

(Master of Education, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the Canadian Cardiovascular Society classification codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Canadian Cardiovascular Society Classification Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived by Long and Evans (1915) by crossing female Wistar rats with a wild gray male, the Long-Evans rat was disseminated to Charles River from Canadian Breeding Farm and Laboratories (1978).

(LE, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A set of guidelines developed by U.S. and Canadian scientists to give information about the role of nutrients in human health.

(Dietary Reference Intakes, NCI Dictionary)

The research was led by engineers Leyla Soleymani and Tohid Didar, who collaborated with colleagues from McMaster's Institute for Infectious Disease Research and the McMaster-based Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Perrault was a French-Canadian, and swarthy; but François was a French-Canadian half-breed, and twice as swarthy.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Try Canadian Pacific Railway,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast.

(Nova Scotia, NCI Thesaurus)