ALBERTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alberta mean? 

• ALBERTA (noun)
  The noun ALBERTA has 1 sense:

1. one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals

  Familiarity information: ALBERTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALBERTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Alberta"):

Banff (a popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies)

Calgary (the largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada)

Edmonton (the capital of the province of Alberta)

Holonyms ("Alberta" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

A public drug database at the University of Alberta which combines detailed drug data with comprehensive drug target information.

(Canada DrugBank, NCI Thesaurus)