# Canadian
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American, Canada) IPA: /kəˈneɪ.di.ən/, [kʰəˈneɪ.ɾi.ən]
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Hyphenation: Can‧ad‧ian
* Rhymes: -eɪdiən

### Etymology 1

From Canada (noun) +‎ -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).

#### Adjective

Canadian (comparative more Canadian, superlative most Canadian)
* Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.
** 2018 July 24, Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders”, in CNN‎:After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.
* (informal) Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English.

##### Synonyms

* Canajun, Canajan
* Canuck
* Canuckistani, Canuckistanian (slang, derogatory or humorous)

##### Antonyms

* non-Canadian

##### Derived terms

* Canadian Alliance
* Canadian as maple syrup
* Canadian bacon (“back bacon”)
* Canadian Bill of Rights
* Canadian canoe
* Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
* Canadian clipper
* Canadian dainty
* Canadian English
* Canadian Eskimo Dog, Canadian Eskimo dog
* Canadian Falls
* Canadian football
* Canadian Forces
* Canadian French
* Canadian garlic
* Canadian hemp
* Canadian horse
* Canadianisation
* Canadianise
* Canadianism
* Canadianist
* Canadianization
* Canadianize
* Canadian Rockies
* Canadian Shield
* Canadian studies
* Canadian Tire money
* Canadian waterweed (Elodea canadensis)
* Canadian whisky
* Dano-Canadian
* English Canadian, English-Canadian
* Franco-Canadian
* French Canadian, French-Canadian
* Germano-Canadian
* I'm Canadian
* non-Canadian
* Norwego-Canadian
* Western Canadian Select

##### Translations
#### Noun

Canadian (plural Canadians)
* A native or inhabitant of Canada.
** 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 180:Even the Canadians have gone to war against them! They never go to war against anybody!
* (sports, informal) Canadian national championship.
** 2012 March 16, Monte Stewart, “Shantz takes on foes from yesteryear in quest for elusive national crown”, in Global News‎:“If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday.
** 2015 December 19, Mary Caton, “A legend on LaSalle diamonds for decades”, in The Windsor Star:"When we were playing in the Canadians (championships) other teams would come around to watch us do our warm-ups," son Jayme Hall said.
** 2017 September 21, Bill Doucet, “A scent of success for Hespeler horseshoe pitcher”, in The Cambridge Times:“With it being Canadians, I’m just, a little bit, not as good as the top girls are,” she said, despite playing in the Canadians in Belleville in 2013.
* (sports) canoe (short for Canadian canoe, as opposed to kayak)

##### Synonyms

* Canajun, Canajan
* Canuck
* Canuckistani, Canuckistanian (slang, derogatory or humorous)
* hoser

##### Derived terms

* aboriginal Canadian
* African Canadian, African-Canadian
* Afro-Canadian
* American Canadian, American-Canadian
* Anglo-Canadian
* anglophone Canadian, Anglophone Canadian
* Arab Canadian, Arab-Canadian
* Asian Canadian, Asian-Canadian
* Asio-Canadian
* Dano-Canadian
* English Canadian, English-Canadian
* Euro-Canadian
* European Canadian, European-Canadian
* Franco-Canadian
* francophone Canadian, Francophone Canadian
* French Canadian, French-Canadian
* French-speaking Canadian
* German Canadian, German-Canadian
* Germano-Canadian
* Hiberno-Canadian
* Indian Canadian, Indian-Canadian
* Indo-Canadian
* Irish Canadian, Irish-Canadian
* native-born Canadian
* Native Canadian
* native Canadian
* neo-Canadian, Neo-Canadian
* new Canadian, New Canadian
* Norwego-Canadian
* Ukraino-Canadian

##### Related terms

* Canadien (masculine), Canadienne (feminine) (directly borrowed from French)

##### Translations
#### Proper noun

Canadian
* (informal) The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

A name of uncertain origin. The city and town names are after the river.

#### Proper noun

Canadian
* The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River.
* A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
* A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.

#### See also

* Canadian County

#### References

* “Canadian” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.