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Nova Scotia

[ noh-vuh skoh-shuh ]

noun

  1. a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). : Halifax.
  2. Informal. Nova Scotia salmon.


Nova Scotia

/ ˈnəʊvə ˈskəʊʃə /

noun

  1. a peninsula in E Canada, between the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy
  2. a province of E Canada, consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island: first settled by the French as Acadia. Capital: Halifax. Pop: 936 960 (2004 est). Area: 52 841 sq km (20 402 sq miles)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Nova Scotia

  1. Province in eastern Canada , including a peninsula to the east of New Brunswick and Cape Breton Island, as well as several smaller adjacent islands. With New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island , Nova Scotia makes up the Maritime Provinces . Halifax is its capital and largest city.


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Notes

French settlers, who called the area Acadia, were expelled by the British in the 1750s. Many of the exiled Acadians settled in Louisiana and became the ancestors of today's Cajuns.
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Other Words From

  • Nova Scotian adjective noun
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Example Sentences

The company behind a proposed spaceport in Canso, Nova Scotia, has secured financing it says will allow it to begin construction on the facility this fall and get its first launch off the ground in 2022.

So within ancestral memory, for instance, my father, who was born in 1906, grew up in rural Nova Scotia, where there were people who had come after escaping slavery.

From Time

Hal Whitehead, a biologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, has spent decades following sperm whales around on boats, trying to figure out their intricate social structures.

In 2019, Page made a documentary called There’s Something in the Water, which explores environmental hardships experienced by communities of color in Nova Scotia, with $350,000 of his own money.

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CATL hasn’t revealed details about the technology behind the extra-long-lasting batteries, but it’s likely they involve some of the measures described last year by a research team at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia—It's amazing what some fresh Nova Scotia air can do.

The couple will visit Pictou County for an event to celebrate Celtic heritage in Nova Scotia.

On Thursday, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter said he had ordered four government departments to investigate Rehtaeh's death.

Take Stacie, a stay-at-home mom in Nova Scotia, Canada, who's struggled with sex-related pain for years.

September 1998: Swissair 111 crashes near Nova Scotia with 229 on board.

On that fatal day in August on which war broke out we were in Nova Scotia.

The citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, celebrated the 108th anniversary of the settlement of that place.

A large number of loyalists were now leaving the States and settling in Nova Scotia.

They call the potatoes ‘Bluenoses’ just as they call the Nova Scotia folks.

He came from Nova Scotia, too, and called himself a typical Bluenose.

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