NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Newfoundland and Labrador mean? 

• NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR (noun)
  The noun NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR has 1 sense:

1. a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949

  Familiarity information: NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Newfoundland and Labrador"):

Labrador (the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada)

Saint John's; St. John's (a port and provincial capital of Newfoundland)

Holonyms ("Newfoundland and Labrador" is a part of...):

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