Quebec

• quebec, QUEBEC

Borrowed from English Quebec.

• IPA^(key): [kɛˈbɛk]^[1][2]

Quebec

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter Q.
2. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter Q.
3. (time zone) UTC−04:00

• Québec (see usage notes there)
• Kebec (archaic)

From French Québec, from Algonquin kepék (“(it) narrows”). Cognate with Mi'kmaq gepe'g (“plug”), and Mi'kmaq Kepinkek. It originally referred to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap. The name of the city preceded that of the province.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kwɪˈbɛk/, /kwəˈbɛk/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kəˈbɛk/, /kwɪˈbɛk/, /kɛˈbɛk/, /keɪˈbɛk/, /kwəˈbɛk/

• Canada:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk

Quebec (usually uncountable, plural Quebecs)

2. A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Quebec City. Largest city: Montreal.

   Synonym: Province of Quebec

   • 1996, Eldon Black, “Prologue: 1960-1967”, in Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations, 1967-1974‎^[1], Carleton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

     And of course, in July 1967 De Gaulle did come to Canada. He made his speeches in Quebec, was enthusiastically received on the Chemin du Roy, shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” in Montreal and, on learning of the reaction of the Canadian government, returned to Paris without going to Ottawa.

4. The capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada.

   Synonyms: Quebec City, Québec City

5. Other places elsewhere:
   1. A village in the town of Brooklyn, Windham County, Connecticut, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States.
   3. A small village in Esh parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1843).
   4. A hamlet in Harting parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7821).

• Quebecois, Québécois

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβɛk]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) unknown

Quebec m

1. Quebec (a province in eastern Canada)
2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

• quebequès

From French Québec, from Algonquin kepék.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkebek/, [ˈk̟e̞be̞k]
• Rhymes: -ebek

Quebec

1. Quebec (a province in eastern Canada)
2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

• When written:

• When spoken:

• Québec
• Quebeck (archaic)

Quebec n (proper noun, genitive Quebecs or (optionally with an article) Quebec)

1. Quebec (a province in eastern Canada)
2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

• Quebecer
  • Quebecerin

• Unterkanada

• “Quebec” in Duden online (Quebec Provinz)
• “Quebec” in Duden online (Quebec Stadt)

Unadapted borrowing from English Quebec, from French Québec, from Algonquin kepék.

• IPA^(key): /kɛˈbɛk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Syllabification: Que‧bec

Quebec m inan

1. Quebec (a province in eastern Canada)
2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

• Quebec in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from French Québec.

Quebec m

1. alternative form of Quebeque:
   1. Quebec (a province in eastern Canada)
   2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkvibek]

Quebec m inan (genitive singular Quebecu)

1. alternative form of Québec:
   1. Quebec (a province in eastern Canada)
   2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)

• “Quebec”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• Québec

Borrowed from French Québec.

• IPA^(key): /keˈbek/ [keˈβ̞ek]
• Rhymes: -ek
• Syllabification: Que‧bec

Quebec m

1. Quebec (a province in eastern Canada)
2. Quebec, Quebec City (the capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada)