Acadian
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkeɪ.di.n̩/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈkeɪ.di.n̩/, /əˈkeɪ.dʒn̩/
- Rhymes: -eɪdiən
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Translations
of or pertaining to Acadia
of or pertaining to the Acadian epoch
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Noun
Acadian (plural Acadians)
Proper noun
Acadian
- (rare) Ellipsis of Acadian French: the form of French spoken in Acadia.
- In many places, Acadian has been supplanted by English and by Standard French.
- (geology) The Middle Cambrian epoch, lasting from 497 million years ago to 509 million years ago.
- The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.
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References
- “Acadian” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN)
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