English Explanatory Dictionary

Vancouver

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
  3. A large island of British Columbia, Canada.
  4. A river in southern British Columbia, Canada.
  5. A mountain between Alaska, United States and Yukon, Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
  6. A mountain straddling the Canterbury and the West Coast regions in the Southern Alps, on the South Island, New Zealand.
  7. A city, the county seat of Clark County, Washington, United States.
  8. A lake in Clark County, Washington, United States.
  9. The Vancouver system of reference citation.

Pronunciation

/vænˈkuː.vɚ/ /væŋˈkuː.vɚ/ En-ca-Vancouver.ogg en-us-Vancouver.ogg EN-Vancouver.ogg

Word forms

Vancouver Vancouvers

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

Hollywood North Hongcouver Lotusland No Fun City Raincouver Vangroovy

Derived words

East Van East Vancouver Greater Vancouver Hongcouver Metro Vancouver North Van North Vancouver Raincouver South Van South Vancouver Vancouver fir Vancouverish Vancouver Island Vancouverism Vancouverite Vancouver Special Vangroovy Vansterdam West Van West Vancouver

Translations

Albanian: Vankuvër Amharic: ቫንኩቨር Arabic: فَانْكُوفَر Arabic: فانكوفر Armenian: Վանկուվեր Azerbaijani: Vankuver Belarusian: Ванку́вер Bengali: ভ্যানকুভার Bulgarian: Ванку́вър Burmese: ဗန်ကူးဗား Cherokee: ᏪᏂᎫᏪᎵ Chinese Cantonese: 溫哥華 /温哥华 Chinese Mandarin: 溫哥華 /温哥华 Czech: Vancouver Danish: Vancouver Dutch: Vancouver Esperanto: Vankuvero Estonian: Vancouver Finnish: Vancouver French: Vancouver Georgian: ვანკუვერი German: Vancouver Greek: Βανκούβερ Greek: Βανκουβέριο Gujarati: વાનકુવર Halkomelem: lhq’á:lets Hebrew: וַנְקוּבֶר Hindi: वैंकूवर Hungarian: Vancouver Irish: Vancúbhar Jamaican Creole: Vangkuuva Japanese: ヴァンクーヴァー Japanese: バンクーバー Kannada: ವ್ಯಾಂಕೋವರ್ Kazakh: Ванкувер Khmer: វែនឃូវើ Khmer: វ៉ាន់ខូវឺ Korean: 밴쿠버 Central Kurdish: ڤانکۆڤەر Kyrgyz: Ванкувер Latin: Vancuverium Latvian: Vankūvera Lithuanian: Vankuveris Macedonian: Ванку́вер
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