canto
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/ˈkæntəʊ/
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/ˈkæntəʊ/ · /ˈkæntoʊ/ (US) · /ˈkæn.toʊ/ (US)
Definition of canto
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
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noun
- One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
- The treble or leading melody.
- The designated division of a song.
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(informal, uncountable)The Cantonese language.
“I think most people born here can’t speak it, but they understand it. It’s so strange that my Chinese friends can speak Canto, and my Japanese friends can speak their language, but it doesn’t work that way for us here”
“In reaction to when the Chinese girls would speak Canto or Mando around us, we created a language – we came up with a language.”
“But Mandarin is the bigger language anyway, not many other parts of China speak Canto.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant.
Words you can make from canto
25 playable · top: COTAN (7 pts)
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