MANITOBA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Manitoba mean? 

• MANITOBA (noun)
  The noun MANITOBA has 1 sense:

1. one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada

  Familiarity information: MANITOBA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANITOBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Manitoba"):

Winnipeg (the capital and largest city of Manitoba; located in southern Manitoba; known for severe winters)

Churchill (a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain)

Lake Winnipeg; Winnipeg (a lake in southern Canada in Manitoba)

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

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

 Context examples 

A province in east-central Canada bordered by Quebec to the east and Manitoba to the west.

(Ontario, NCI Thesaurus)