Acadia

American  

[uh-key-dee-uh] / əˈkeɪ di ə /

noun

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

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Acadia British  

/ əˈkeɪdɪə /

noun

1. 1. the Atlantic Provinces of Canada

   2. the French-speaking areas of these provinces

2. (formerly) a French colony in the present-day Atlantic Provinces: ceded to Britain in 1713

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Example Sentences

The policy also specifies that international visitors without an annual pass will need to pay a $100-per-person surcharge at 11 of the most visited national parks, which include Acadia, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion.

From The Wall Street Journal

Maine’s Acadia National Park requires them for Cadillac Summit Road, a scenic drive to the highest peak there.

From The Wall Street Journal

Born in 1930, Irving attended Nova Scotia’s Acadia University before leaving to join Irving Oil in 1951, where he worked with his father and his two brothers.

From Seattle Times

Acadia National Park in Maine has watched its numbers more than double over the past decade.

From Seattle Times

And so I tried to change my conversation to, listen, yeah, this was not done well by Acadia as far as neighborhood reach-out and everything, and community outreach.

From Seattle Times