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Word entry · 5 letters

canto

Best crossword clue

"Poem section"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈkæntəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted acnotStarts with CEnds with O1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2A3N4T5O

Definitions

  1. a major division of a long poem

Word origin

From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant.

Used in a sentence

  • 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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