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Acadia

US/əˈkeɪ.di.ə/

Acadia proper noun: a former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.

Proper noun

Acadia

  1. (historical) A former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.
  2. Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.
    • The fall rush around Acadia helps workers survive winter’s lean months. But that’s all at risk if a government shutdown forces America’s national parks and monuments to lock their gates, scuttling millions of vacations and school trips, and costing tourist towns from the Everglades to Yellowstone...2023 September 28, Jack Healy, “National Parks, and Those Who Count on Them, Brace for Possible Shutdown”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  3. A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see Acadia Parish.

Origin of Acadia

Two possibilities: * from Italian Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía, “Arcadia”), a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry * from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”)

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Questions about Acadia

What does Acadia mean?
Acadia means a former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.
What part of speech is Acadia?
Acadia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Acadia?
Acadia is pronounced /əˈkeɪ.di.ə/ (US).

Words near Acadia in the dictionary

  1. academy leader
  2. Academy of Sciences
  3. academy school
  4. academy schools
  5. acadesine
  6. Acadia
  7. Acadia Parish
  8. acadialite
  9. acadialites
  10. Acadian
  11. Acadian chickadee

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