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Acadian

Acadian \A*ca"di*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia. ``Acadian farmers.''
--Longfellow. -- n. A native of Acadie.

Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology.

Acadian owl (Zo["o]l.), a small North American owl ( Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Acadian

1705, from Acadia, Latinized form of Acadie, French name of Nova Scotia, probably from Archadia, the name given to the region by Verrazano in 1520s, from Greek Arkadia, emblematic in pastoral poetry of a place of rural peace (see Arcadian); the name may have been suggested to Europeans by the native Micmac (Algonquian) word akadie "fertile land." The Acadians, expelled by the English in 1755, settled in large numbers in Louisiana (see Cajun, which is a corruption of Acadian).

Wiktionary
acadian

a. 1 Of or pertaining to Acadia, its people, or their language or culture. (First attested in the early 19th century.) 2 (context geology English) Of or pertaining to the Acadian epoch. n. 1 A native of Acadia or their descendants who moved to Louisiana; a Cajun. (First attested in the early 18th century.)(R:SOED5) 2 (context Canada English) A French speaking descendant of the early settlers in the Maritime Provinces. 3 (context rare English) Acadian French: the form of French spoken in Acadia. 4 (context rare English) Acadian epoch; the Middle Cambrian; the geologic time period from 497 million year ago to 509 million year ago.

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Acadian (automobile)

Acadian is a make of automobile which was produced by General Motors of Canada from 1962 to 1971. The Acadian was introduced so that Canadian Pontiac- Buick dealers would have a compact model to sell, since the Pontiac Tempest was unavailable in Canada. Plans originally called for the Acadian to be based on the Chevrolet Corvair, which was produced at GM's Oshawa plant; however, the concept was moved to the Chevy II platform to be introduced for 1962. The brand was also offered in Chile, with models built in Arica.

Acadian (disambiguation)

Acadians are natives of Acadia, a region of northeastern North America (see also Cajuns and Expulsion of the Acadians).

Acadian may also mean:

  • Acadian (train), a Southern Pacific passenger train
  • Acadian (automobile), a make of automobile produced by General Motors of Canada
  • Acadian French, a French dialect
  • Acadian flycatcher, a small insect-eating bird
  • Acadian orogeny, a middle Paleozoic deformation in geology
  • Acadian Peninsula, a peninsula in North America
  • Acadian World Congress, a festival held every five years
  • List of Acadians, notable people of Acadian origin
  • Acadiana, a large region of south Louisiana influenced by Cajun culture
    • Acadian Coast, historical term for the area along the Mississippi River settled by Acadians in the 18th century
Acadian (train)

The Acadian was the name of a passenger train of the Southern Pacific which ran daily between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. The Acadian was one of several passenger trains, including the Sunset Limited and Argonaut, which operated over the "Sunset Route". The 1956 iteration of the Acadian (which ran as #4 eastbound and #3 westbound) departed Houston at 9:45 pm and arrived in New Orleans at 7:20 am the following morning, while the westbound train departed New Orleans at 9:20 pm and arrived in Houston 7:10 am. The Southern Pacific ended the Acadian in 1956.

Usage examples of "acadian".

French priests minister to the Acadian farmers outside the fort, to the sinister Indians ever lying in ambush, to the French bushrovers under young St.

News of the war and of the ravaging of Acadian fishing towns set Massachusetts in flame.

English and prevent the Acadian farmers taking the oath of fidelity to England.

In a few days the English cannon had been placed in a circle round the fort, and set such strange music humming in the ears of the besieged that the Acadian farmers deserted and the priest nervously thought of flight.

The men of the Acadian settlements were summoned to the churches to hear the will of the King of England.

Strange children rambled beneath the little dormer windows of the Acadian cottages, and the voices of the boys at play in the apple orchards shouted in an alien tongue.

The infamous Le Loutre is still in prison in England, and when he is released, in 1763, he toils till his death, in 1773, trying to settle the Acadian refugees on some of the French islands of the English Channel.

Our eyes lingered as long as possible and with all eagerness upon these meadows and marshes which the poet has made immortal, and we regretted that inexorable Baddeck would not permit us to be pilgrims for a day in this Acadian land.

Nothing is more strange than the incongruous mixture of the forms of feudalism with the independence of the Acadian woods.

They continually encroached on Acadian fishing grounds, and we hear at one time of a hundred of their vessels thus engaged.

A large collection of Acadian documents, from the archives of Paris, is in my possession.

I have also examined the Acadian collections made for the government of Canada and for that of Massachusetts.

A sort of chronic warfare of aggression and reprisal, closely akin to piracy, was carried on at intervals in Acadian waters by French private armed vessels on one hand, and New England private armed vessels on the other.

As late as 1698, we find Acadian officials advising the reconstruction of the fort.

They employed the two deserters, joined with two Acadian prisoners, to kidnap Saint-Castin, whom, next to the priest Thury, they regarded as their most insidious enemy.