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canada

UK/kəˈnɑːdə/US/kəˈnɑːdə/
nounA2+Very common — you will meet it every day · #2,347 of 15,258mostly written

Canada is the huge cold country of maple syrup, north of the USA. Live in Canada, from Canada, across Canada.

It is the second largest country by area and one of the emptiest, with most of the population living within about a hundred miles of the American border. It has two official languages and produces the great majority of the world's maple syrup, which it holds in a strategic reserve.

Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barrister at Wikimedia Commons. The current SVG encoding is a rewrite performed by MapGrid. · Public domain

Definitions of canada

  1. 1nouncanadaThe large North American country north of the United States.A2+

    “Canada has two official languages, English and French.”

canada is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    cannatus

  2. Portuguese

    canada

  3. English, today

    canada

From Portuguese canada, from Latin cannatus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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