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Type Settlement
Usage English

Meaning & History

Name of a city in Canada, from French le mont Royal "mont royal". Jacques Cartier named it after the nearby mountain, but it is uncertain how royal became real. A common explanation is that real is the Middle French form of Royal, but Cartier himself recorded le mont Royal when he named it.
Added 10/24/2015 by Fanny
Edited 3/1/2017 by Mike C