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[edit]Etymology
[edit]The family name is from the Dutch place name Coevorden (“the place where cows ford the river”) via the Dutch family name van Coevorden (“a person from Coevorden”). The place names are derived from the family name, being named after George Vancouver, an English explorer who charted the northwestern Pacific coast of North America in a 1791–1794 expedition.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /vænˈkuː.vɚ/, /væŋˈkuː.vɚ/
Audio (British Columbia): (file) Audio (US): (file) Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Proper noun
[edit]Vancouver (countable and uncountable, plural Vancouvers)
- A surname.
- A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
- 2012 July 12, Nathan Pachal, “TomTom Congestion Index Useless for Metro Vancouver”, in The South Fraser Blog[1]:
- PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.
- A large island in British Columbia, Canada.
- A river in southern British Columbia, Canada.
- A mountain between Alaska, United States and Yukon, Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
- A mountain in the Southern Alps, on the South Island, New Zealand.
- A city, the county seat of Clark County, Washington, United States.
- A lake in Clark County, Washington, United States.
- (attributive) The Vancouver system of reference citation.
- 2019, G. Jagadeesh, Biomedical Research, page 485:
- The different fields in the 'style' file include the format of the in-text citations (Vancouver or Harvard style) […]
Synonyms
[edit]- (Canadian city): Hollywood North (informal), Hongcouver (informal, somewhat derogatory), Lotusland (informal), No Fun City (informal, usually pejorative), Raincouver (informal), Vangroovy (informal).
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- The True Meaning of Vancouver, Joseph Jones, Vancouver Sun, 1994-12-31, which in turn cites Woordenboek der Noord — en Zuidnederlandse plaatsnamen
French
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[edit]Vancouver f
- Vancouver (a seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada)
- Vancouver (a city in Washington, United States)
Portuguese
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Vancouver.
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Proper noun
[edit]Vancouver m or f
- Vancouver (a seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada)
- Vancouver (a city, the county seat of Clark County, Washington, United States)
Spanish
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Vancouver f
- Vancouver
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