Definitions
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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Poem section”5 letters
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