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q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓

q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ proper noun: synonym of Kwantlen.

Proper noun

q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ sg or pl

  1. (plural, singular) Synonym of Kwantlen.
    • She and 24 other educators in the MEd cohort spent only one day in the classroom during the two-year program. The rest of their classes were held in natural settings off-campus that included q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie) and q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen) First Nations lands where they learned from Indigenous elders...2019 October 1, Diane Lucow, “MEd grad ready to reinvent her approach to teaching”, in Faculty of Education - Simon Fraser University
    • The school, like most other public institutions in our province, is located on unsurrendered Indigenous territories, specifically the territories of the q̓íc̓əy̓, q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓, and Semiahmoo Nations.2025, Cher Hill, Neva Whintors, Ching-Chiu Lin & Tadpole Movie Makers, “I Hate the Global Warming Factory!”, in The Canadian Journal of Action Research, volume 25, number 2, page 76
    Synonyms:
    Kwantlen

Synonyms of q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓

Origin of q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓

Unadapted borrowing from Halkomelem q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓.

Questions about q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓

What does q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ mean?
Q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ means synonym of Kwantlen.
What part of speech is q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓?
Q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ is a proper noun.

Words near q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ in the dictionary

  1. qāf
  2. Qārin
  3. qʷaacwiiʔatḥ
  4. qʷi·qʷi·diččaq
  5. q̓íc̓əy̓
  6. q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓
  7. r
  8. R & B
  9. R acid
  10. R and R
  11. R bomb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: q̓ʷa:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (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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