canada
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1. a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada (noun.location)
| part holonym | : | baffin island, |
| definition | : | the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | alberta, |
| definition | : | one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | british columbia, |
| definition | : | a province in western Canada (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | manitoba, |
| definition | : | one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | newfoundland and labrador, |
| definition | : | a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949 (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | northwest territories, |
| definition | : | a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | nunavut, |
| definition | : | an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | arctic archipelago, |
| definition | : | all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | ontario, |
| definition | : | a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | quebec, |
| definition | : | the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | saskatchewan, |
| definition | : | one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | yukon, yukon territory, |
| definition | : | a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | columbia, columbia river, |
| definition | : | a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | great lakes, |
| definition | : | a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | hudson bay, |
| definition | : | an inland sea in northern Canada (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | labrador peninsula, labrador-ungava peninsula, |
| definition | : | a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | niagara, niagara river, |
| definition | : | a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | ottawa, ottawa river, outaouais, |
| definition | : | a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | yukon, yukon river, |
| definition | : | a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | north america, |
| definition | : | a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama (noun.object) |
| member holonym | : | canadian, |
| definition | : | a native or inhabitant of Canada (noun.person) |
| member meronym | : | british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations, |
| definition | : | an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown (noun.group) |
| member meronym | : | nato, north atlantic treaty organization, |
| definition | : | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security (noun.group) |
| member meronym | : | british empire, |
| definition | : | a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand (noun.location) |
| domain member category | : | department of justice canada, dojc, |
| definition | : | an agency of the Canadian government that provides litigation and legal advice and opinions to the government (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | canadian security intelligence service, csis, |
| definition | : | Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | security intelligence review committee, sirc, |
| definition | : | an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | toronto, |
| definition | : | the provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada) (noun.location) |
| domain member region | : | metis, |
| definition | : | a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry (noun.person) |
| domain member region | : | returning officer, |
| definition | : | the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results (noun.person) |
| domain member region | : | dominion day, july 1, |
| definition | : | a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867 (noun.time) |
| derivation | : | canadian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to Canada or its people (adj.pert) |
| domain member region | : | dole, pogey, pogy, |
| definition | : | money received from the state (noun.act) |
| derivation | : | canadian, |
| definition | : | of or relating to Canada or its people (adj.pert) |
| domain member region | : | dole, pogey, pogy, |
| definition | : | money received from the state (noun.act) |
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