french canadian
(ɛntʃ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Also, French-Canadian. of or pertaining to French Canadians or the French-speaking parts of Canada.
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canuck
(əˈnʌk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(a term used to refer to a Canadian, esp. a French Canadian.)
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poutine
(ˈtin)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a French-Canadian dish of French fries and cheese curds topped with gravy or other sauce.
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habitant
(ˈhæb ɪ tənts;)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a French Canadian, esp. a French-speaking inhabitant of rural Quebec.
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franco-american
(ˈfræŋ koʊ əˈmɛr ɪ kən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an American of French or French-Canadian descent.
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french canadian
(French Canadian)
Princeton's WordNet
a Canadian descended from early French settlers and whose native language is French
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canf
(əˈnɛt i)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Canadian French.
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bad lands
Webster Dictionary
barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca–ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
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french canadian
(ɛntʃ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a Canadian whose first language is French, esp. a descendant of the colonists of New France.
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anglo
(ˈæŋ gloʊ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a Canadian whose first language is English, as distinguished from French-speaking Canadians.
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coureur de bois
(coureur de bois)
Princeton's WordNet
a French Canadian trapper
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joliet
(ˌdʒoʊ liˈɛt; for 1 also -liˈeɪ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Louis, 1645–1700, French-Canadian explorer of the Mississippi.
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joual
(ʒuˈæl, -ˈɑl)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of various regional or popular forms of Canadian French, taken to be substandard or to reflect lack of education.
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acadia
(Acadia)
Princeton's WordNet
the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces
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cisc
(Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, CISC)
Princeton's WordNet
an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
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criminal intelligence services of canada
(Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, CISC)
Princeton's WordNet
an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
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acadia
(əˈkeɪ di ə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a region and former French colony on the N Atlantic coast of North America, including the present Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and part of Maine: ceded to the British 1713.
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nova scotia
(Nova Scotia)
Princeton's WordNet
the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns
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gallicism
Webster Dictionary
a mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom
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canuck
Webster Dictionary
a Canadian
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hedgehog
Webster Dictionary
the Canadian porcupine
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frenchify
Webster Dictionary
to make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize
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frenchism
Webster Dictionary
a French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language
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french west africa
(ˈfrɛntʃ mən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a former French federation in W Africa, including Dahomey (now Benin), French Guinea, French Sudan (now Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
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quebec group
Webster Dictionary
the middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology
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chazy epoch
Webster Dictionary
an epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology
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communalism
Webster Dictionary
a French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism
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toise
Webster Dictionary
an old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet
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bateau
Webster Dictionary
a boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers
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beton
Webster Dictionary
the French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion
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