Definitions for Anticosti

Anticosti An·ti·cos·ti

Spelling: [an-tuh-kaw-stee, -kos-tee]
IPA: /ˌæn təˈkɔ sti, -ˈkɒs ti/

Anticosti is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 369 anagrams from letters in Anticosti (aciinostt).

Definitions for Anticosti

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  1. an island at the head of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in E Canada, in E Quebec province. 135 miles (217 km) long; 3043 sq. mi. (7880 sq. km).

Examples for Anticosti

The ill-omened Anticosti, the graveyard of many seamen, is yet to be passed.

On the evening of the twenty-second they were at some distance above the great Island of Anticosti.

One of the ships was wrecked on the island of Anticosti, and William Longfellow, 299 with nine of his comrades, was drowned.

As we said, Tarboe lay rocking in a bight at Anticosti, with an empty hold and a scanty larder.

On the 15th, he discovered the island now known by the name of Anticosti.

Those ice pans might have come from anywhere along the hundreds of miles between Anticosti and Cape Chidley.

Near the Island of Anticosti we saw at least three hundred spouting whales at one view.

Anticosti was sighted by Jacques Cartier in 1534, and named Assomption.

The passage from St. Paul to Anticosti is at times dangerous.

Anticosti, an island of Canada, in the mouth of the St. Lawrence, 125 miles long by 30 miles broad.

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