dominion of canada
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An Act respecting the establishment of Provinces in the Dominion of Canada."
- "In that year [1871] British Columbia decided to become part of the Dominion of Canada, on condition that a transcontinental railway should be completed without delay."
- "About that time, I was asked by the United Nations to confirm the official long and short names of our country. I assumed the long title was Dominion of Canada, and the short was simply Canada. I was wrong. External Affairs declared that Canada alone was official as both the long and the short name. […] Historians trace the origin of the title Dominion of Canada in the constitution to Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers of Confederation, from New Brunswick."