The Collaborative International Dictionary
Newfoundland \New"found*land`\ (?, often ?), prop. n.
An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.
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A Newfoundland dog.
--Tennyson.Newfoundland dog (Zo["o]l.), a breed of large dogs, with shaggy hair, which originated in Newfoundland, noted for intelligence, docility, and swimming powers.
Usage examples of "newfoundland dog".
His precocious, enduring passion for the opposite sex had stunted his growth, but this had not damped his general ardour, and he was giving a spirited account of a fox-chase when he was called away - the Newfoundland dog he had brought aboard, an animal the size of a calf, had seen fit to guard the blue cutter, in which Babbington had laid his Guernsey frock, and to forbid anyone to touch so much as its gunwale.
It was the next day before it was found, and then it was brought up by a Newfoundland dog, very far from the spot in which we had searched for it.
Their splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog.