Cassiar
Cassiar proper noun: a ghost town in the Cassiar Mountains, Cassiar Land District, Northern Interior, Interior, Mainland, British Columbia, Canada. Also the ellipsis of the Cassiar Mountains.
Proper noun
Cassiar
- A ghost town in the Cassiar Mountains, Cassiar Land District, Northern Interior, Interior, Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
- A former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada.
- A historical region in northwest British Columbia, Canada, site of an 1870's gold rush; in full, Cassiar Country.
- A river in the Cassiar Land District, in northwest British Columbia, Canada; in full, Cassiar River.
Also used as
Cassiar is also the ellipsis of the Cassiar Mountains.
Cassiar is also the ellipsis of the Cassiar Land District.
Synonyms of Cassiar
- Cassiars
- Cassiar Ranges
- Cassiar County
- Cassiar District
- Cassiar Country
Origin of Cassiar
Corruption of Kaska. From Kaska. From the Kaska Dena, an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations group of the Dene, who live in the region of Northern British Columbia and Southern Yukon Territory.
Words formed from Cassiar
- Cassiar Connector
- Cassiar Country
- Cassiar County
- Cassiar District
- Cassiar Gold Rush
- Cassiar Highway
- Cassiar Land District
- Cassiar Mountains
- Cassiar Ranges
- Cassiar River
- Cassiars
- Cassiar Tunnel
Questions about Cassiar
- What does Cassiar mean?
- Cassiar means a ghost town in the Cassiar Mountains, Cassiar Land District, Northern Interior, Interior, Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
- What part of speech is Cassiar?
- Cassiar is a proper noun.
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