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Keewatin

Keewatin proper noun: a former district of the Northwest Territories, in use as an administrative and statistical division until the creation of Nunavut in 1999.

Proper noun

Keewatin

  1. (historical) A former district of the Northwest Territories, in use as an administrative and statistical division until the creation of Nunavut in 1999.
  2. (historical) A former territory of Canada and later an administrative district of the Northwest Territories, having some territorial overlap with the above.
  3. A city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States.

Words formed from Keewatin

Questions about Keewatin

What does Keewatin mean?
Keewatin means a former district of the Northwest Territories, in use as an administrative and statistical division until the creation of Nunavut in 1999.
What part of speech is Keewatin?
Keewatin is a proper noun.

Words near Keewatin in the dictionary

  1. Keever
  2. Keevers
  3. keeves
  4. Keevil
  5. keeving
  6. Keewatin
  7. keezer
  8. keezers
  9. kef
  10. Kefa
  11. kefala

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