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

This sprawling case of US sanctions violations is ongoing and Meng, who says she is innocent of the charges, hopes her lawsuit against HSBC might help her convince Canadian courts to deny the US extradition request.

From Quartz

While those born from January to March made up 28 percent of Canadian NHL players, they accounted for just 17 percent of Canadian All-Star or Olympic players.

From FiveThirtyEight

I also worked for the summer of 1968 aboard a Canadian geophysical research ship on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, surveying the ocean floor stripes of magnetism and gravity measurements, and conducting seismic tests.

From Science News

Last month, authorities identified a wealthy Canadian couple who had posed as locals in a remote Indigenous community to take doses meant for elders.

From Washington Post

“It’s on a scale that hasn’t been done before,” said Pieter Cullis, the Canadian scientist and Acuitas chairman who is considered a godfather of lipid nanoparticle technology.

From Washington Post

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg