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Lab·ra·dor (lab′rə dôr′)
noun
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Lab·ra·dor (lab′rə dôr′)
- region along the Atlantic coast of NE Canada, constituting the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador: 112,826 sq mi (292,218 sq km)
- large peninsula between the Atlantic & Hudson Bay, containing Quebec & Labrador (the region)
Etymology: prob. < Port lavrador, landholder, for 15th-c. Port explorer João Fernandes, a landholder in the Azores: the name was first applied to Greenland
Related Forms:
- Labradorean Lab′·ra·dor′·ean adjective, noun or Labradorian Lab′·ra·dor′·ian (-ē ən)
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