NOUN (2)

1. a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River;

2. the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns;

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Nova Scotia
    n 1: a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and
         the Saint Lawrence River
    2: the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova
       Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who
       called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the
       British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns