Meaning of Canto | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
2. The Cantonese language.
   informal, uncountable
3. The treble or leading melody.
4. The designated division of a song.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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