cañada

¹ American  

[kuhn-yah-duh, -yad-uh] / kənˈyɑ də, -ˈyæd 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

Example Sentences

We spent much of our time at Tisapán in collecting plants, and exploring the lava-field, and the cañada, or ravine, that leads up into the mountains that skirt the valley of Mexico.

From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Tylor, Edward Burnett

About three miles from the edge of the mesa, in a still wilder cañada, where there is no space nor site for any abode around, the bell was found.

From Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse

Madroño Cottage lay at the entrance of a little cañada already green with the early winter rains, and nestled in a thicket of the harlequin painted trees that gave it a name.

From Frontier Stories by Harte, Bret

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 Harte, Bret

Straight across through the clear blue-tinged atmosphere above the cañada to the shoulders and cañons, the forests and clear spaces and chaparral of the mountain flanks, we look.

From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)