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Hudson's Bay

Hudson's Bay is the alternative form of Hudson Bay.

Meaning of Hudson Bay

Proper noun

Hudson Bay

  1. A gulf officially in Nunavut, but also surrounded by Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, Canada, a southern extension of the Arctic Ocean. A large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada.
    • Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s...2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe)
  2. A town in east-central Saskatchewan, Canada, previously named Hudson Bay Junction, a railway junction for a line to Hudson Bay.
  3. A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Hudson Bay No. 394, which surrounds the Saskatchewan town.

Questions about Hudson's Bay

What is Hudson's Bay the alternative form of?
Hudson's Bay is the alternative form of Hudson Bay.

Words near Hudson's Bay in the dictionary

  1. Hudson Bay
  2. Hudson County
  3. Hudson Falls
  4. Hudson River
  5. Hudson Strait
  6. Hudson's Bay
  7. Hudson's Bay blanket
  8. Hudson's Bay blankets
  9. Hudsonian
  10. Hudsonian curlew
  11. Hudsonian curlews

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hudson's Bay (page history and authors); Hudson Bay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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