Québécois (word) la langue française mentions only a territorial meaning for "Québécois". Newspaper editor Lysiane Gagnon has referred to an ethnic sense of the word "Québécois" in both English and French. French expressions employing "Québécois" often appear in both French and English. Québécois (word) Québécois (pronounced ; feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ), ' (fem.: '), or (fem.: ) is a word used primarily to refer to a native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec, the majority of whom speak French as a mother tongue. It can refer to French spoken in Quebec. It may also be used, with an upper- or
Word Word In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning. This contrasts deeply with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own. A word may consist of a single morpheme (for example: "oh!, rock, red, quick, run, expect"), or several ("rocks, redness, quickly, running, unexpected"), whereas a morpheme may not be able to stand on its own as a word (in the words just mentioned, these are "-s, -ness, -ly, -ing, un-, -ed"). A complex word will typically include a root