Canadian
/kəˈneɪdɪən
/adjective
Relating to or characteristic of Canada or its inhabitants: the Canadian government’s economic policies a culture that is distinctly Canadian...
- They will continue to send pork to Canadian superstore shelves.
- A gravel road leads about a mile north to the Canadian border.
- Plaskett's music's distinctively Canadian and for those who know him, he's as synonymous with our country as The Hip are.
noun
A native or inhabitant of Canada: a 27-year-old Canadian from Ontario more than four million Canadians play hockey...
- Younger, better educated and Canadians with higher incomes are the drivers of these changes.
- As of 1996, the proportion of Canadians reporting English as their mother tongue was just under 60 percent while those reporting French as their mother tongue was slightly less than 24 percent.
- That most Canadians do not follow hockey in any serious way does not diminish its role as a key cultural symbol.
Derivatives
Canadianness
- Does Canadianness reside in skin, in speech, or in cultural customs?
- Is it similarly Anne's "Canadianness," the thing that has led to her functioning as a national icon, that explains her cultural value outside Canada?
- They appeared to embody the individual artistic expression of the Canadian artist whose essential Canadianness was understood in relationship to wilderness landscape.