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PRONUNCIATION OF ATHABASKA

Athabaska  [ˌæθəˈbæskə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ATHABASKA

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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Athabaska is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ATHABASKA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Athabasca

Athabasca is an anglicized version of the Cree name for Lake Athabasca in Canada, āthap-āsk-ā-w, meaning “grass or reeds here and there”. Related to the lake are several other geographical and administrative features called Athabasca. Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta, Canada: Geographical features: ▪ Mount Athabasca, a mountain in Jasper National Park, Canada ▪ Athabasca Glacier, a glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada ▪ Athabasca River, river in Alberta, Canada ▪ Athabasca Falls, waterfalls on the Athabasca River ▪ Peace-Athabasca Delta – Delta of the Peace River, Athabasca River, near Lake Athabasca ▪ Athabasca Oil Sands – oil producing region in Alberta, Canada ▪ Lake Athabasca, large lake in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada ▪ Athabasca Pass, a mountain pass in Jasper National Park ▪ Athabasca Valles, a feature on the surface of the planet Mars ▪ Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park Administrative...

Definition of Athabaska in the English dictionary

The definition of Athabaska in the dictionary is a river in W Canada, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing northeast to Lake Athabaska. Length: 1230 km.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ATHABASKA


Alaska
əˈlæskə
asker
ˈɑːskə
Athabasca
ˌæθəˈbæskə
busker
ˈbʌskə
esker
ˈɛskə
husker
ˈhʌskə
lascar
ˈlæskə
Lasker
ˈlæskə
Madagascar
ˌmædəˈɡæskə
marasca
məˈræskə
masker
ˈmɑːskə
masquer
ˈmɑːskə
Musca
ˈmʌskə
Nebraska
nɪˈbræskə
Osca
ˈɒskə
oscar
ˈɒskə
tasker
ˈtɑːskə
Wesker
ˈwɛskə
whisker
ˈwɪskə
Ziska
ˈzɪskə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ATHABASKA

Aten
atenolol
Atget
Athabasca
Athabascan
Athabaskan
Athalia
Athamas
athame
Athanasian
Athanasian Creed
Athanasius
athanasy
athanor
Athapascan
Athapaskan
Atharva-Veda

WORDS THAT END LIKE ATHABASKA

baked Alaska
britska
Caipiroska
friska
Gaudier-Brzeska
Gulf of Alaska
Hrvatska
Lake Athabaska
Landowska
Lower Tunguska
Polska
schapska
ska
Stony Tunguska
Szymborska
Tunguska
Upper Tunguska
zakouska
zakuska

Synonyms and antonyms of Athabaska in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Athabaska» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ATHABASKA

Find out the translation of Athabaska to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Athabaska from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Athabaska» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Athabaska
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Athabaska
570 millions of speakers

English

Athabaska
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Athabaska
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Athabaska
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Athabaska
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Athabaska
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Athabascan
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Athabaska
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Athabascan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Athabaska
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Athabaska
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Athabaska
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Athabascan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Athabaska
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Athabascan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अथबस्कॅन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Athabascan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Athabaska
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Athabaska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Athabaska
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Athabaska
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Athabaska
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Athabaska
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Athabaska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

athabaska
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Athabaska

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ATHABASKA»

The term «Athabaska» is normally little used and occupies the 119.761 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ATHABASKA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Athabaska» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Athabaska» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Athabaska

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATHABASKA»

Discover the use of Athabaska in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Athabaska and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Athabaska
This book is about kingship in a place called Athabaska in the forest of Bethany in Australia which once belonged to the Kangaroos but was taken over by the hyenas during a war.
Abena Kwatemaa Offeh-Gyimah, 2009
2
The Indian Tribes of North America
Chipewyan already occupied the country from the Great Slave Lake and Lake Athabaska eastward — . . . but that the intense fusion resulting from the fur trade obliterated the old subdivisions into tribes or bands and broke down also dialectic ...
John Reed Swanton, 1952
3
The Arctic Prairies
Rivers, we frequently observed migrating companies, and we noted the bird for the last time that season near Athabaska on November 1. Euphagua cyanocephalus (W agler). Brewer's Blackbird. This blackbird is found buta short distance ...
E.T. Seton
4
Geological Survey Bulletin
The only workable deposits are the benches along the valley walls of Athabaska River and some of its tributaries, where the streams have cut through the overlying beds and into or through the oil sands. The minable benches are estimated to ...
5
Oil Shales and Tar Sands: A Bibliography
of Utah and Athebesca tar sand bitumens, 2934 Progress report: Athabasca tar sands, 1106 Proparties of asphalt siada frosi Athabaska bituminous sands, 3267 Pyrolysls of Utah tar sands: products and kinetics, 1226 Reac tlons of Athabasca  ...
United States. Dept. of Energy, 1977
6
Motorboating - ND
systems of northern Canada did not become fully apparent until we reached Jasper and began to turn the pages of an atlas. Then we learned that neither the Athabaska nor the Saskatchewan flowed to salt water under its own name.
7
The United States Exploration Anthology: The Personal ...
In 1789 the Board of Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company in London sent Philip Turner from London to Lake Athabaska in order to find out its exact location , and after his return they kept instructing Colen and his associates on the Council ...
John Abbott, David Thompson, Meriwether Lewis, 2013
8
Fishing Saskatchewan: An Angler's Guide to Provincial Waters
SAB RB 6797 (2) ATHABASKA LAKE (74N-740) Athabaska Lake, one of the largest inland lakes in Canada and the largest body of water in Saskatchewan, is home to some of the largest lake trout in the world. The provincial record released ...
Michael Snook, 2004
9
The Glittering Mountains of Canada: A Record of Exploration ...
One descends, above the head of Saskatchewan Glacier, into a broad, nearly level basin, whence the slopes rise gradually along the base of an unnamed snow-crest adjoining Athabaska on the west. Just this much takes hours; and, ...
J. Monroe Thorington, 2012
10
Report of the Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time
... (Giant Mts., Riesengebirge) from Jachimov (Joachmistal), and uraninite from Rock Landing, Conn., all in the later Paleozoic, and pitchblende from Ivey Claim ( H. S. Spence) Lake Athabaska, Canada (apparently coeval with Great Bear Lake ) ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time, Alfred Church Lane, 1952

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATHABASKA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Athabaska is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ottawa must stop threats to Wood Buffalo National Park
One of the park's key resources is the Peace-Athabaska Delta, a huge wetland and meadow area that sustains the whooping crane and bison ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
2
Readers recommend: songs from or about Canada
... and visited Banff National Park, spotted a moose, crossed part of the Athabaska glacier on a snowcat then drank, trickling from its gentle melt, ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
3
From boom town to family town: Meet the real Fort McMurray
Tar Island facility located at the Athabaska Oil Sands north of Fort McMurray on Aug. 31, 2010. (Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail). «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
4
Greenhouse gas emissions: Who's responsible for climate policy in …
Tar Island facility located at the Athabaska Oil Sands north of Fort McMurray, Ab. Aug. 31/2010. (photo by Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and ... «The Globe and Mail, Mar 15»
5
Oil, stocks rebound after Fed announcement
The TSX was up 63 points at 14,962 at the close, despite news of fresh layoffs at Talisman, Athabaska Oil and ConocoPhillips. The Dow shot ... «CBC.ca, Mar 15»

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