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Acadia
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acadia acádia Acádia
English
Etymology
Two possibilities:
from en it Arcadia, from en grc Ἀρκαδία Arcadia, a place of rural peace in pastoral poetry
from en mic akadie fertile land
Pronunciation
en /əˈkeɪ.di.ə/ US
en eɪdiə 4
Proper noun
en Q207353en historical en A <<former>> French <<colony>> in <<r/North America>> in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern <<c/Canada>> (<<p:also/Nova Scotia>>, <<p/New Brunswick>> and <<p/Prince Edward Island>>) and part of the state of <<s/Maine>> in the <<c/USA>> a <<former>> French <<colony>> in <<r/North America>> in modern eastern <<c:also/Canada,United States>>.
Acadia National Park, a national park in Maine.
en-US Jack Healy National Parks, and Those Who Count on Them, Brace for Possible Shutdown The New York Times 2023-09-28 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/national-parks-shutdown.html 0362-4331 The fall rush around Acadia helps workers survive winter’s lean months. But that’s all at risk if a government shutdown forces America’s national parks and monuments to lock their gates, scuttling millions of vacations and school trips, and costing tourist towns from the Everglades to Yellowstone to Death Valley an estimated $70 million a day. https://web.archive.org/web/20251020021736/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/national-parks-shutdown.html 20 October 2025
A parish in southern Louisiana, first settled by some Acadian exiles then by mostly Franco-Americans: see en Acadia Parish.
Derived terms
en acadialite Acadian Coast Acadian Acadia Parish
Translations
a French colonial territory in North America
Catalan: ca Acàdia f
Finnish: fi Acadia
French: fr Acadie f
Galician: gl Acadia f
German: de Akadien f
Greek: el Ακαδία f
Korean: ko 아카디아
Latin: la Acadia f
Polish: pl Akadia f
Portuguese: pt Acádia f
Russian: ru Ака́дия f
Spanish: es Acadia
Anagrams
en aaacdi Adacia
Latin
Pronunciation
1
Acadiā 1
Proper noun
Acadia<1.loc>
la New Latin la Acadia Q207353
Declension
Acadia<1.loc>
Proper noun
la proper noun form Acadiā f
la Acadia abl