MARITIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maritimes mean? 

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

1. the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARITIMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Canadian Maritime Provinces; Maritime Provinces; Maritimes

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Maritimes"):

Acadia (the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces)

New Brunswick (a province in southeastern Canada)

Nova Scotia (the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns)

Prince Edward Island (an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; the smallest province of Canada)

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

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