Acadia

发音

US /əˈkeɪ.di.ə/

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A former French colony in North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the United States.

    历史
  2. 2.

    Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.

  3. 3.

    A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see Acadia Parish.

相关短语

Acadia Parish

词源

Two possibilities: * from Italian Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía, “Arcadia”), a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry * from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”)

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