Acadia Definition

ə-kādē-ə
pronoun

(history) A colonial territory owned by France in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what is now northeast USA and the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland)

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Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.

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A parish in southern Louisiana settled by Acadian exiles.

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Origin of Acadia

  • From Italian Archadia (1520), possibly from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadia, “a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry”), or possibly from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”).

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Acadia Sentence Examples

  • Among the incidents of these troubled years was the arrival in Louisiana (after 1765) of some hundreds of French exiles from Acadia, who made their homes in the Attakapas country.

  • In the treaty of Utrecht (1713) the words used in transferring the French possessions to Britain were "Nova Scotia or Acadia."

  • The Acadians (see § History below) to-day are settled mainly in St Mary, Acadia and Vermilion parishes; lesser numbers are in Avoyelles and St Landry; and some are scattered in various other parishes.

  • Of the total irrigated area for rice of 387,580 acres in 1902, 310,670 acres were in the parishes of Calcasieu, Acadia and Vermilion.

  • Thus the fight dragged on, and was constantly maintained in Acadia, where the sovereignty had been early disputed, and the border never properly settled.

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Words Starting With

AACACA

Words Ending With

AIADIA

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Acadia

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