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say it: KAN-uh-duh
canada is a noun meaning "a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada". It is pronounced /ˈkænədə/ — KAN-uh-duh. It carries one recorded sense.
a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada
“the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for canada come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.