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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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Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it’s an awful warning to the electors.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 133 · C1
She said there might be female ministers in the States and she believed there was, but thank goodness we hadn’t got to that stage in Canada yet and she hoped we never would.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 259 · C1
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
On the death of Sir Charles we inquired for this young gentleman and found that he had been farming in Canada.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 27 · C1

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