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Lab·ra·dor (lab′rə dôr′)

noun

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Lab·ra·dor (lab′rə dôr′)

  1. 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)
  2. 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

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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