See Canadian Falls in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Niagara Falls"
},
"expansion": "(Niagara Falls):",
"name": "sense"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Shoshone Falls"
},
"expansion": "(Shoshone Falls):",
"name": "sense"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Augustin-Magloire Blanchet",
"in": "1847",
"nat": "Canadian",
"nocat": "1",
"occ": "Roman Catholic Bishop"
},
"expansion": "Coined by Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop Augustin-Magloire Blanchet in 1847",
"name": "coin"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Canadian+falls (waterfall).\n* (Niagara Falls): From being the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.\n* (Shoshone Falls): Coined by Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop Augustin-Magloire Blanchet in 1847. Blanchet, being from Canada, named the falls \"Canadian Falls\"",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Canadian Falls"
},
"expansion": "Canadian Falls",
"name": "en-proper-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Canada",
"orig": "en:Places in Canada",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Ontario, Canada",
"orig": "en:Places in Ontario, Canada",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "American Falls"
},
{
"word": "Goat Island"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A waterfall in Niagara Falls, Niagara river, Niagara Peninsula, Niagara regional municipality, Niagara region, Ontario, Canada."
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "Niagara Falls"
},
{
"word": "Niagara"
},
{
"word": "the Falls"
}
],
"id": "en-Canadian_Falls-en-name-uSpeSrCP",
"links": [
[
"Niagara Falls",
"Niagara Falls#English"
],
[
"Niagara",
"Niagara#English"
],
[
"Niagara Peninsula",
"Niagara Peninsula#English"
],
[
"Ontario",
"Ontario#English"
],
[
"Canada",
"Canada#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Horseshoe Falls"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Idaho, USA",
"orig": "en:Places in Idaho, USA",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in the United States",
"orig": "en:Places in the United States",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 67",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Former name of Shoshone Falls: a waterfall in the Snake River, Idaho, United States."
],
"id": "en-Canadian_Falls-en-name-wDOimUhS",
"links": [
[
"Shoshone Falls",
"Shoshone Falls#English"
],
[
"Snake River",
"Snake River#English"
],
[
"Idaho",
"Idaho#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Canadian Falls"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Niagara Falls"
},
"expansion": "(Niagara Falls):",
"name": "sense"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Shoshone Falls"
},
"expansion": "(Shoshone Falls):",
"name": "sense"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Augustin-Magloire Blanchet",
"in": "1847",
"nat": "Canadian",
"nocat": "1",
"occ": "Roman Catholic Bishop"
},
"expansion": "Coined by Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop Augustin-Magloire Blanchet in 1847",
"name": "coin"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Canadian+falls (waterfall).\n* (Niagara Falls): From being the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.\n* (Shoshone Falls): Coined by Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop Augustin-Magloire Blanchet in 1847. Blanchet, being from Canada, named the falls \"Canadian Falls\"",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Canadian Falls"
},
"expansion": "Canadian Falls",
"name": "en-proper-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Places in Canada",
"en:Places in Ontario, Canada"
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "American Falls"
},
{
"word": "Goat Island"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A waterfall in Niagara Falls, Niagara river, Niagara Peninsula, Niagara regional municipality, Niagara region, Ontario, Canada."
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "Niagara Falls"
},
{
"word": "Niagara"
},
{
"word": "the Falls"
}
],
"links": [
[
"Niagara Falls",
"Niagara Falls#English"
],
[
"Niagara",
"Niagara#English"
],
[
"Niagara Peninsula",
"Niagara Peninsula#English"
],
[
"Ontario",
"Ontario#English"
],
[
"Canada",
"Canada#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Horseshoe Falls"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Places in Idaho, USA",
"en:Places in the United States"
],
"glosses": [
"Former name of Shoshone Falls: a waterfall in the Snake River, Idaho, United States."
],
"links": [
[
"Shoshone Falls",
"Shoshone Falls#English"
],
[
"Snake River",
"Snake River#English"
],
[
"Idaho",
"Idaho#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Canadian Falls"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Canadian Falls meaning in English (2.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.