SASKATCHEWAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saskatchewan mean? 

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

1. one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SASKATCHEWAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

vast fields of wheat grow on Saskatchewan's prairies

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Saskatchewan"):

Regina (the provincial capital of Saskatchewan)

Saskatoon (a city in central Saskatchewan; the largest city in the province)

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

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

 Context examples 

Instead, the tail is long and flexible, with keels of feathers running down each side, said Ryan McKellar of Canada's Royal Saskatchewan Museum.

(Scientists find dinosaur feathers preserved in amber, Wikinews)

We can be sure of the source because the vertebrae are not fused into a rod or pygostyle as in modern birds and their closest relatives, said co-author Ryan McKellar, of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada in an interview with the BBC.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)