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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A province of southeast Canada consisting of Prince Edward Island in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. French settlement of the island (then called Île St. Jean) began in the 1720s, and it joined the confederacy in 1873. Charlottetown is the capital and the largest city.
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- proper noun A
province in easternCanada which hasCharlottetown as its capital. - proper noun An
island in easternCanada , which forms the majority of theeponymous province
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; the smallest province of Canada
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Examples
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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She was late for a flight and apparently tried to push through a security door, swore at staff and called Prince Edward Island a "hellhole."
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She was late for a flight and apparently tried to push through a security door, swore at staff and called Prince Edward Island a "hellhole."
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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In the Random E-Mail File today is a guy from a cider company in/on Prince Edward Island, which is in Hoboken, N.J. Whoops!
Summit Daily News - Top Stories By Summit Up 2010
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