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Canada

/ˈkænədə/ noun C2
  1. A country bordering a larger country that shares many similarities with it, but is overshadowed by the more prominent larger. (US, informal)

Plural Canadas

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We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 4 · B2
“It is possible that Stapleton did not know of the existence of an heir in Canada.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 210 · C1
Stapleton’s first idea was that this young stranger from Canada might possibly be done to death in London without coming down to Devonshire at all.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 210 · C1
“I don’t know much of British life yet, for I have spent nearly all my time in the States and in Canada.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 40 · C1

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