Quebec

Quebec
Quebec
Quebec

• quebec, QUEBEC

Borrowed from English Quebec.

• IPA^(key): ^[1][2]

Quebec

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter Q.
2. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter Q.
3. (time zone) UTC−04:00

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Quebec

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Quebec

• Québec (see usage notes)

From French Québec, from Algonquin kepék (“(it) narrows”). Cognate with Mi'kmaq gepe'g (“plug”), and Mi'kmaq Kepinkek; compare Proto-Algonquian *kepahikani (“obstruction”). It originally referred to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap. The name of the city preceded that of the province.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kwɪˈbɛk/, /kwəˈbɛk/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kəˈbɛk/, /kwɪˈbɛk/, /kɛˈbɛk/, /keɪˈbɛk/, /kwəˈbɛk/

• Canada:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk

Quebec (usually uncountable, plural Quebecs)

1. A province in eastern Canada.
   • 1996, Eldon Black, “Prologue: 1960-1967”, in Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations, 1967-1974‎, Carleton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

     And of course, in July 1967 De Gaulle did come to Canada. He made his speeches in Quebec, was enthusiastically received on the Chemin du Roy, shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” in Montreal and, on learning of the reaction of the Canadian government, returned to Paris without going to Ottawa.

2. The capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada.

• (capital city of Quebec): Quebec City, Québec City

• (province): QC, Que., Que, Qc., Qc, P.Q., P. Q., PQ (abbreviation)
• Quebecer, Quebecker
• Quebecian
• Quebecism
• Quebec red trout
• Quebexican

• Quebecois, Québécois

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) unknown

Quebec m

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

• quebequès

From French Québec, from Algonquin kepék.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkebek/,
• Rhymes: -ebek

Quebec

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

• When written:

• When spoken:

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Quebec

Wikipedia ^pl

Unadapted borrowing from English Quebec, from French Québec, from Algonquin kepék.

• IPA^(key): /kɛˈbɛk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Syllabification: Que‧bec

Quebec m inan

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

• Quebec in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from French Québec.

Quebec m

1. Alternative form of Quebeque

• IPA^(key):

Quebec m inan (genitive singular Quebecu)

1. Alternative form of Québec

• “Quebec”, 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, 2003–2025

• Québec

Borrowed from French Québec.

• IPA^(key): /keˈbek/
• Rhymes: -ek
• Syllabification: Que‧bec

Quebec m

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