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NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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