say it: MER-uh-tahymz
maritimes is a noun meaning "the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island". It is pronounced /ˈmɛɹəˌtaɪmz/ — MER-uh-tahymz. It carries one recorded sense.
the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
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 maritimes 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.