Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The North American craton which, according to the theory of plate tectonics, has existed since the Paleozoic Era and was once part of a supercontinent comprising present-day North America and Greenland.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After the Laurentian, Shield, the continental shield underlying northeast North America that forms the nucleus of the North American continent, after the Saint Lawrence River.]

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Examples

  • They don't want to live in some dream world, such as Laurentia; and they don't want to live it in a Quebec, separated from all the rest of Canada.

    The Next Hundred Years 1967

  • The rock was deposited in a shallow tropical sea, at a time (roughly 475-445 million years ago) when Wisconsin was part of Laurentia, located a short ways south of the equator.

    "Steampunk happens when goths discover brown." greygirlbeast 2010

  • The rock was deposited in a shallow tropical sea, at a time (roughly 475-445 million years ago) when Wisconsin was part of Laurentia, located a short ways south of the equator.

    "Steampunk happens when goths discover brown." greygirlbeast 2010

  • The story plays out in Dorestad, the most central domain of the Netherlands, under the rule of Prince Laurentia van Haeften.

    Lextalionis IX The Queen's Gambit nathreee 2010

  • The story plays out in Dorestad, the most central domain of the Netherlands, under the rule of Prince Laurentia van Haeften.

    weekly nathreee 2010

  • Yesterday's reading was all scientifical: From Science (11 July 2008), "A Positive Test of East Antarctica-Laurentia Juxtaposition With the Rodina Supercontinent," and from the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (which I could finally get to, having finished the June issue), "New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new Cetacean clan, Pelagiceti."

    She doesn't have anything you want to steal. Well, nothing you can touch. greygirlbeast 2008

  • Dame Laurentia is an excellent foil, all ears in Catherine Flye's wide-eyed, wonder-struck performance.

    Theater Review: Washington Stage Guild's 'The Best of Friends' 2010

  • Whitemore, whose historical projects include "Breaking the Code" and the screenplay for another epistolary drama, "84 Charing Cross Road," discovers real drama in the rift between Shaw and Laurentia over Shaw's novel "The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God."

    Theater Review: Washington Stage Guild's 'The Best of Friends' 2010

  • "The Best Of Friends" - the PBS movie that was adapted from a play adapted from the writings of Shaw, Cockerill, and Dame Laurentia which starred McGoohan, Gielgud,and Dame Wendy Hiller

    Archive 2009-07-19 Toby O'B 2009

  • One Gold and Silver from Yip Pin Xiu and two Bronze from rider Laurentia Tan in the event of equestrian.

    Yip Pin Xiu won Singapore first Gold Medal in Paralympic Games, Beijing 2008 2008

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