newfoundland dog

1. 1.

   a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland

   SynonymsNewfoundland

   Broaderdog

Questions about newfoundland dog

What does newfoundland dog mean?

newfoundland dog means "a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland".

What is another word for newfoundland dog?

Close synonyms include Newfoundland. 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 newfoundland dog a common word?

newfoundland dog 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.