Word.ws English Dictionary

Old Perlican

Syllables: Old Per·li·can/ˈoʊld ˈpɝ.lɪ.kən/

Old Perlican proper noun: a town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Proper noun

Old Perlican

  1. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Origin of Old Perlican

Likely derived from a corruption of pelican. The settlement may have been named after a ship. The element old was added to distinguish the town from New Perlican.

Words that rhyme with Old Perlican

Questions about Old Perlican

What does Old Perlican mean?
Old Perlican means a town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
What part of speech is Old Perlican?
Old Perlican is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Old Perlican?
Old Perlican is pronounced /ˈoʊld ˈpɝ.lɪ.kən/.

Words near Old Perlican in the dictionary

  1. old pennies
  2. old penny
  3. old people
  4. old people's home
  5. old people's homes
  6. Old Perlican
  7. Old Persian
  8. Old Picard
  9. Old Poblacion
  10. Old Point Comfort
  11. Old Polabian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Old Perlican (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Old Perlican.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/old_perlican. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.