The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laurentian \Lau*ren"tian\, a. Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills.
Laurentian period (Geol.), the lower of the two divisions of the Arch[ae]an age; -- called also the Laurentian.
Usage examples of "the laurentian".
It means that one day those four in the Laurentian cavern will waken.
If the greater world wished to approach Blairlogie, it could very well do so by the train which made the sixty-mile journey from Ottawa over a rough line, much of it cut through the hardest granite of the Laurentian Shield, a land mass of mythic antiquity.
There was a copy of the Laurentian calendar sitting on a table in the lab.
Nocci put me in touch with an assistant curator at the Laurentian Li- brary.
The bulk of this population is concentrated along the Laurentian coast of the Iapetus Ocean (I'm stuck with these place names), but there are also camps deep in the interior and on some of the island arcs, and it could be, and has been, argued that the Navy is stretched thin.
The land on Jupiter, corresponding to the Laurentian Hills on earth, must even here have appeared at so remote a period that the first surface it showed must long since have been worn away, and therefore any impressions it received have also been erased.