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notre dame bay

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables
notre -dame bay
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A large bay on the north coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Etymology

Partial calque of French baie Notre-Dame (literally “Our Lady Bay”), itself possibly a calque of an earlier Portuguese name.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does notre dame bay mean?
A large bay on the north coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Where does notre dame bay come from?
It is traced to Portuguese.

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