Québec

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kwɪˈbɛk/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kwɪˈbɛk/, /kəˈbɛk/, /keɪˈbɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

Québec

1. Alternative form of Quebec (“province”).
2. (official federal and provincial government usage) Alternative form of Quebec (“Quebec City”).

This is the official spelling of the city.^[1] Whereas for the province, according to the Canadian government, Québec is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec in Canadian English.^[2]

• Qué.
• Québec City
• Québecer
• Québecian

Borrowed from Algonquin kepék (“(it) narrows”), originally referred to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap.

• IPA^(key): /ke.bɛk/

• Audio (Quebec, Côte-Nord):

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

Québec m

1. Quebec (a province of Canada)
2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

   Synonym: Ville de Québec

   1. (by metonymy) The government of the province of Quebec.

      Québec a annoncé de nouveaux investissements en santé.

      Quebec City announced new funding for health.

The name of the city does not take a definite article: Québec, de Québec, à Québec. This is also true when the name of the city is used as a metonymy for the government of the province. The name of the province does take an article: le Québec, au Québec, du Québec, except in the expression Province de Québec.

• Action démocratique du Québec
• Québécois
• québécois
• québécité
• Sûreté du Québec
• (province): QC, Que., Que, Qc., Qc, P.Q., P. Q., PQ (abbreviation)

• English: Quebec
• → Portuguese: Quebeque, Quebec

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Quebec

Wikipedia ^de

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• Audio:

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Québec n (proper noun, genitive Québecs or (optionally with an article) Québec)

1. Quebec (a province of Canada)
2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

Québec ?

1. Alternative form of Quebec

Québec

1. Alternative form of Quebec

Québec n

1. Alternative form of Quebec

• Quebec

• IPA^(key):

Québec m

1. Quebec (a province of Canada)

• “Québec”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Québec ?

1. Alternative form of Quebec