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• cañada
  cañada

  noun

  a dry riverbed.
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  Canada

  noun

  a nation in N North America: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 3,690,410 sq. mi. (9,558,160 sq. km). Ottawa.

cañada

¹ American  

[kuhn-yah-duh, -yad-uh] / kənˈjɑ də, -ˈjæd ə /

noun

Chiefly Western U.S.

1. a dry riverbed.

2. a small, deep canyon.

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Canada ² American  

[kan-uh-duh] / ˈkæn ə də /

noun

1. a nation in N North America: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 3,690,410 sq. mi. (9,558,160 sq. km). Ottawa.

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Canada British  

/ ˈkænədə /

noun

1. a country in North America: the second largest country in the world; first permanent settlements by Europeans were made by the French from 1605; ceded to Britain in 1763 after a series of colonial wars; established as the Dominion of Canada in 1867; a member of the Commonwealth. It consists generally of sparsely inhabited tundra regions, rich in natural resources, in the north, the Rocky Mountains in the west, the Canadian Shield in the east, and vast central prairies; the bulk of the population is concentrated along the US border and the Great Lakes in the south. Languages: English and French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: Canadian dollar. Capital: Ottawa. Pop: 34 568 211 (2013 est). Area: 9 976 185 sq km (3 851 809 sq miles)

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Canada Cultural  

1. Nation in northern North America, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean and Alaska to the west, and the United States to the south. Its capital is Ottawa, and its largest city is Toronto. In area, Canada is the second largest nation in the world, behind Russia.

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It is an ally of the United States, though conflict has arisen over environmental and trade issues. Each country is the other's leading partner in world trade (see North American Free Trade Agreement).

The border between Canada and the United States is the longest unguarded border in the world.

Canada has experienced recurring tension arising from a separatist movement in French-speaking Quebec province. In 1995, separatists were narrowly defeated in a referendum.

A French explorer founded Quebec in 1608.

Etymology

Origin of cañada

1840–50; < Spanish, equivalent to cañ ( a ) cane + -ada noun suffix

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Example Sentences

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cañada Canada

The road—little more than a trail—wound along the crest of the hill looking across the cañada to the long, dark, heavily-wooded flank of Mount Tamalpais that rose from the valley a dozen miles away.

From Frontier Stories by Bret Harte

Westerly the distant range hid the bosky cañada which sheltered the Mission of San Pablo.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various

After spending two or three hours botanising in the cañada, I returned to the house.

From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

A keen wind rising in the hills was already creeping from the cañada as from the mouth of a funnel, and sweeping the plains.

From Frontier Stories by Bret Harte

In the cañada we stopped to water our horses, and there heard that the enemy were advancing along it at a rapid pace, evidently hoping to cut off our supposed retreat towards the Cuchilla.

From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Bruno was a hugely popular figure still chasing his first world title, while Lewis, born in London but raised in Canada, was defending his WBC heavyweight crown.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

The August earthquake in Colombia, Atlantic windstorms that affected the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco, and Winter Storm Fern in the U.S. and Canada at the start of the year represented the biggest losses, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada prohibit importation of African hunting trophies like heads and skins, and pressure is mounting in the U.K. and Germany to follow suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

It grew as Europe became more integrated -- although its reach exceeds the continent's borders, with Canada joining next year -- and became as much about the politics as the music.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Two years later, as the Parks Canada team continued its search for the second missing vessel, another Inuit person would play a key role in a second great discovery.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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