canadian shield

1. 1.

   a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean

   SynonymsLaurentian PlateauLaurentian Highlands

   Broadertableland

   Part ofCanada

Questions about canadian shield

What does canadian shield mean?

canadian shield means "a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean".

What is another word for canadian shield?

Close synonyms include Laurentian Plateau, Laurentian Highlands. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is canadian shield a common word?

canadian shield is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.