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Acadia

[ uh-key-dee-uh ]

noun

  1. a former French colony in SE Canada: ceded to Great Britain 1713.


Acadia

/ əˈkeɪdɪə /

noun

    1. the Atlantic Provinces of Canada
    2. the French-speaking areas of these provinces
  1. (formerly) a French colony in the present-day Atlantic Provinces: ceded to Britain in 1713


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On Tuesday, we took the kids to Acadia National Park—about 55 miles from where we were staying.

We'll travel in the opposite direction from Acadia, for Nova Scotia is large enough to contain us all without a collision.

The King had certainly given Poutrincourt rights in Acadia, and he had passed them on to his son.

He had been graduated from Acadia College a few years before, the youngest of his class by more than a year.

Every king's ship from Acadia brought to Ponchartrain letters full of matters like these.

First, the question of Acadia: whether the treaty gave England a vast country, or only a strip of seacoast.

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