Anticosti

American  

[an-tuh-kaw-stee, -kos-tee] / ˌæn təˈkɔ sti, -ˈkɒs ti /

noun

1. an island at the head of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in E Canada, in E Quebec province. 135 miles (217 km) long; 3,043 sq. mi. (7,880 sq. km).

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Anticosti British  

/ ˌæntɪˈkɒstɪ /

noun

1. an island of E Canada, in the Gulf of St Lawrence; part of Quebec. Area: 7881 sq km (3043 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Coleman was on Anticosti for business reasons as well as pleasure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fifty miles from the nearest telephone and 40 times that far from his office, Businessman Sheldon Coleman, 65, last week happily cast for salmon in the upper Jupiter River of eastern Canada's Anticosti Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Club, the master of La Tribune, was master of the Active, frigate when she was run ashore on the Island of Anticosti.

From History of Halifax City by Akins, Thomas B.

This was another lesson to me in life, and one which perhaps I could not have acquired more thoroughly than by a few days on Anticosti.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James