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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

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

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 Bret Harte

For some time we found nothing; then two sprang out of the long grass close to the cañada, which they crossed, and, on reaching the other side, started Page 96off in different directions.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey

"It is everywhere in the global economy," Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said of AI on Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

England's 41-match unbeaten streak ended in dramatic fashion as Shoshanah Seumanutafa's late try handed Canada a thrilling 24-21 victory in Toronto.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

It was the visitors' eighth straight defeat, four of them in the new competition, having lost to Canada, New Zealand and the Aussies in their home ties.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

In the 1980s, economic gravity began to reassert itself after Canada signed a free-trade agreement with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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