Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being in the vicinity of the St. Lawrence River.
- adjective Geology Of or relating to the Precambrian gneissic granite of the Lake Superior area.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Laurentius or Lorenzo dei Medici, or to the Laurentian Library in Florence, named from him.
- Of or pertaining to the river St. Lawrence: applied in geology, in 1854, by Sir W. E. Logan, to a series of rocks occupying an extensive area in the region of the Upper Lakes, and previously called by him the metamorphic series, and by Foster and Whitney the azoic series.
- noun In geology, the Laurentian series.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River.
- adjective (Geol.) the lower of the two divisions of the Archæan age; -- called also
the Laurentian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to a
Precambrian geological region in eastern Canada, or the period of its formation. - adjective Relating to the Laurentian Mountains.
- adjective Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River.
- noun An extinct
Iroquoian language ofCanada . - noun geology The Laurentian period.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is but one series of rocks more ancient than the Cambrian, and that is the one called the Laurentian, which is said not to be found in Britain.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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And yet I believe the election was one of the most significant in Canada's history, because it signalled the eclipse of what I call the Laurentian consensus.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Ibbitson 2011
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And yet I believe the election was one of the most significant in Canada's history, because it signalled the eclipse of what I call the Laurentian consensus.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Ibbitson 2011
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Laurentian is not only the centre of a federated University, but is bilingual as well.
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The plants were found Sept. 18 at a farm on B Line Road in Laurentian Valley Township near Pembroke, Ont., about 150 kilometres west of Ottawa, during the execution of a search warrant, said an Ontario Provincial Police news release that described the bust as “the largest in Canada’s history.”
Ontario Marijuana Bust Called Largest in Canada’s History | Disinformation 2008
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[82] This famous manuscript is known as Laurentian, Plutarch 74, 7, and its figures have been reproduced by H. Schöne, _Apollonius von
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In the Laurentian, which is pretty largely developed in the Ottawa Valley, we have a number of economic products that I think we have every right to take a certain pride in.
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The earliest sedimentary rock with which we are acquainted at present is what is known as the Laurentian formation.
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Laurentian, which is Canada's seventh-largest bank, joins three of the Big Six financial institutions that are opposed to the proposed merger.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GRANT ROBERTSON 2011
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It's called The Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa, and this series ends with a look at its ties to Prime Minister Harper, and a glimpse of what goes on inside its walls.
TheTyee.ca 2010
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