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Acadian
A-ca′di-an
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia.
“Acadian farmers.” Longfellow.
– Noun.
A native of Acadie.
Acadian epoch
(Geol.)
, an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See
– Geology
. Acadian owl
(Zool.)
, a small North American owl (
Nyctule Acadica
); the saw-whet.Definition 2024
Acadian
Acadian
English
Adjective
Acadian (comparative more Acadian, superlative most Acadian)
- Of or pertaining to Acadia, its people, or their language or culture. [First attested in the early 19th century.][1]
- (geology) Of or pertaining to the Acadian epoch.
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Of or pertaining to the Acadian epoch
Proper noun
Acadian
- A native of Acadia or their descendants who moved to Louisiana; a Cajun. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
- (Canada) A French speaking descendant of the early settlers in the Maritime Provinces.
- (rare) 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
- 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7)
- ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5)