maritime provinces

1. 1.

   the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

   SynonymsMaritimesCanadian Maritime Provinces

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofCanada

   PartsAcadiaNew BrunswickNova ScotiaPrince Edward Island

Questions about maritime provinces

What does maritime provinces mean?

maritime provinces means "the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island".

What is another word for maritime provinces?

Close synonyms include Maritimes, Canadian Maritime Provinces. 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 maritime provinces a common word?

maritime provinces 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.