- Québec
- Québec [kebεk]1. noun( = ville) Quebec (City)2. masculine noun• le Québec ( = province) Quebec━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━QUÉBECQuebec's history as a French-speaking province of Canada has meant that the French spoken there has developed many distinctive characteristics. Since the 1970s, the government of Quebec has been actively promoting the use of French terms instead of Anglicisms in everyday life in order to preserve the Francophone identity of the province, over 80% of whose inhabitants have French as their mother tongue. → LA RÉVOLUTION TRANQUILLE* * *kebɛk
1.
nom propre masculin (province)le Québec — Quebec
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nom propre (ville) Quebec* * *kebɛk1. n(= ville) Quebec2. nmle Québec — Quebec, Quebec Province
* * *QuébecB ⇒ Les villes npr Quebec.[kebɛk] nom propre masculin1. [province]le Québec Quebecau Québec in Quebecla province de ou du Québec Quebec State2. [ville] Quebecà Québec in (the city of) QuebecLE QUÉBECFounded by Champlain in 1608, this Canadian province remained predominantly French-speaking after Canada became a British possession in 1763. Today, with French as its official language, it is the centre of French-Canadian culture.
Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. 2013.