单词 | labradorian |
释义 | Labradoriann.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of Labrador, a coastal region of eastern Canada; spec. a member of any of several Inuit peoples native to this region. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > parts of Newfoundlander1611 mountainer1625 Acadian1705 Quebecker1775 bluenose1785 Labradorian1818 Nova Scotian1829 British Columbian1859 Québécois1862 Bluenoser1863 Torontonian1875 Montrealer1877 Winnipegger1882 Ontarian1883 novy1897 Yukonerc1898 herring choker1899 Maritimer1931 Newfie1942 Newfier1942 Spud Islander1957 Newf1958 1818 M. Hack Winter Evenings III. 89 I should like to hear about the Esquimaux very much; but as they live in Labrador, I wonder they are not called Labradorians. 1822 Methodist Mag. Apr. 163 I first preached to as many as were able to understand me, and among these were English, Irish, Canadians, and Labradorians, who heard with attention. 1863 H. Y. Hind Explor. Labrador Penins. II. 135 The residents on the coast, or Labradorians as they may well be termed, frequent the St. Augustine in the winter and travel towards its source. 1910 C. W. Townsend Labrador Spring 68 Dr. Grenfell's hardest work is to teach the Labradorians the value of fresh air inside their houses. 1947 V. Tanner Outl. Geogr., Life & Customs Newfoundland-Labrador II. 527 The heavy, clumsy tupek of the Labradoreans, the skin tent, is said to have never given complete protection from rain or wind. 1973 Town Crier (St. John's, Newfoundland) May 43/3 The purpose of the club is to provide..assistance in a practical way to Labradorians living here. 2004 H. Sawler One Single Hour 295 Lee wondered to herself if she'd stayed in the Straits so long now that she was talking like a Labradorian. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Labrador or its inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > Canada > parts of Canada Nova Scotian1790 down east1825 Labradorian1830 Hudsonian1835 British Columbian1858 Newfoundlandic1871 Scotian1884 Ontarian1893 1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) II. 521 A very judicious Botanist suspects that the representation in E. Bot. was taken from a specimen of A. polifolia γ angustifol., of Wildenow, a Labradorian plant. 1865 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 440 A touch of civilization, to contrast with the impression of that Labradorian rag-tag existence which we had hitherto seen. 1891 Weekly Sentinel & Wisconsin Farm Jrnl. 10 Dec. 1/6 The temperature of the room was decidedly Labradorian. 1931 Amer. Anthropologist 33 577 Two types [of social structure] should henceforth be recognized as prevailing in the Labradorean culture-area. 1977 Canad. Mag. (Toronto) 19 Mar. 7/1 The white Labradorian ‘liveyeres’ (Newfoundlander for live-heres) traditionally did not drink. 2001 A. Johns & I. Mazurkewich in L. Hinton & K. Hale Green Bk. Lang. Revitalization in Pract. xxviii. 356/1 The Moravian missionaries, having received formal training in West Greenlandic,..would have considered the Labradorian dialect to be nonstandard. 2. Geology. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun] > pre-Cambrian formations Huronian1857 Labradorian1870 Keweenawan1876 sparagmite1882 Keewatin1886 Torridonian1893 Laxfordian1950 1870 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 99 395 The geological subdivisions adopted on this map [sc. Geological Map of Canada and the Northern United States, by Sir W. E. Logan] are—1. Laurentian, 2. Labradorian (or Upper Laurentian), 3. Huronian. 1888 J. Prestwich Geol. II. 20 Labradorian or Norian group. 1909 U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. No. 360. 59 The Upper Laurentian or Labradorian terrane is found resting, in the form of patches, unconformably on the Lower Laurentian, both on the Hastings series and on the Ottawa series. b. In form Labradorean. Designating or relating to an ice sheet which covered parts of north-eastern North America during the Pleistocene epoch. ΚΠ 1897 G. M. Dawson in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 5 80 The Keewatin glacier of Mr. Tyrrell, with that which may be named the Labradorian [sic; Labradorean used later in the article] glacier, as known to us by Mr. Low's work, may be regarded as relatively local..centers of dispersion connected with a diminishing stage of the glacial period. 1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) xxiv. 437 Pleistocene Glaciation... The Labradorean and Keewatin ice sheets coalesced and, at their maximum extent, reached almost as far south as the mouth of the Ohio River. 2011 B. B. Curry et al. in J. Ehlers et al. Quaternary Glaciations xxxvi. 473/1 The middle and lower Illinois River Valley systems..were the approximate boundary between Labradorean and Keewatin glacial ice in Illinois. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1818 |
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