Canadian

[ kuh-ney-dee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of Canada or its people.

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Canada.

Canadian

/ kəˈneɪdɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Canada or its people

noun

1. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Canada

Other Words From

• an·ti-Ca·na·di·an adjective noun
• pro-Ca·na·di·an adjective noun
• pseu·do-Ca·na·di·an adjective noun
• trans-Ca·na·di·an adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Canadian¹

First recorded in 1560–70; Canad(a) + -ian; compare French canadien

Example Sentences

The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.

From The Daily Beast

Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.

From The Daily Beast

That gays (and other liberals) should choose Canadian oil because Canada “has no laws prohibiting LGBT lifestyle.”

From The Daily Beast

Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.

From The Daily Beast

But, in Jamaica, Maurice Tomlinson was forced to flee his country after his marriage to his Canadian husband made front-page news.

From The Daily Beast

We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

From Project Gutenberg

No one has yet gone far enough down to test the depth of the veins in any Canadian mine.

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The foregoing are all the Canadian mines now in work, as far as I have been able to learn, certainly all of any importance.

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We lit our pipes and strolled over in silence to the men's quarters, and it was his odd Canadian expression "Gee whiz!"

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Under the guise of apparent indifference his mind kept the Canadian under constant observation.

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