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Definitions: Canteen |
CanteenNoun1. A flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers. 2. Sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. 3. A restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen. 4. A recreation room in an institution. 5. Restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canteen" was first used: sometime around 1710. (references) |
Synonym: CanteenSynonym: mobile canteen (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse. |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Canteen |
| English words defined with "canteen": bear ♦ Cantine, Cantiniere, carry, contain ♦ hold ♦ mobile canteen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "canteen": ATKINS ♦ CANTEEN OPERATOR ♦ manager, human resources, MANAGER, PERSONNEL ♦ tope. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "canteen": Cantiniere. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dagmar's Canteen (1952) Hollywood Canine Canteen (1946) Cowboy Canteen (1944) Hollywood Canteen (1944) Stage Door Canteen (1943) | |
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 | [Red Cross canteen at Evacuation Hosp. No. 5].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : Canteen in Red Cross Hut.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The Stage Door canteen reopens.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lt. Sturgeon in front of his sand-bagged canteen, Italian front.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Italian front: Trying the doughnuts--The central figure is Miss Sylvia Coney, a canteen worker from New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Base canteen.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Brick Presbyterian Church parish house, 62 E. 92nd St., New York City. Canteen, parish house.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Representative Shannon of Missouri. Articles bought at Army canteen.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Verdun, road to Y.M.C.A. canteen / A.K.S. ; sketched on spot by Y.M.C.A. sec[retar]y ; Coquemer imp. Paris.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Verdun, road to Y.M.C.A. canteen / A.K.S. ; sketched on spot by Y.M.C.A. sec[retar]y ; Coquemer imp. Paris.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For many years, local companies have outsourced the provision of canteen and cleaning services, but not IT services. (references) | |
Economic History | Venezuela | Employers can do this by providing their own canteen, contracting with a food service or distributing lunch tickets that workers can redeem at food establishments. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Canteen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Canteen" is used about 563 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 563 | 11,148 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "canteen": mobile canteen ♦ student's canteen. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "canteen": canteen-keeper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
canteen | 1,075 |
hollywood canteen | 20 |
canteen vending | 20 |
canteen service veteran | 19 |
stage door canteen | 18 |
canteen corporation | 8 |
canteen furniture | 7 |
canteen truck | 6 |
water canteen | 6 |
canteen services | 6 |
canteen veteran | 6 |
canteen leather | 5 |
canteen corp | 5 |
north platte canteen | 5 |
boy canteen | 4 |
canteen cup | 4 |
canteen va | 4 |
camping canteen | 4 |
canteen perfume | 4 |
canteen gourd | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "canteen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pagur (flask, gourd, water bottle), mensë (cafeteria, common, cook-shop, refectory), kuti me vegla gatimi, klub (club, club-house, recreation centre), bufe (bar, buffet, cabinet, cupboard, dresser, hutch, refreshment room, sideboard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كانتين, ملهى مجاني للجنود, مقصف (cafeteria, snack bar), مطعم (cafe, dining room, eatery, restaurant, tavern), مخزن عسكري, قربة (bottle, goatskin, skin), صندوق لأدوات المائدة, المزادة حافظة الماء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стол (chair, pew, refectory, seat), манерка (flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 军"餐具. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stravovna, polní láhev (flask), kantýna (cafeteria), jídelní miska. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | feltflaske (flask, water-bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | veldfles (flask, water-bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | soldata botelo (water-bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فروشگاه یارستوران , قمقمه (Thermos), سربازخانه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ruokala (eating-house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cantine (cafeteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kantine (cafeteria, recreation room), feldflasche (flask, water-bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καντίνα (commissary, recreation room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מימי" (water bottle, water flask), מז ון (buffet, lunchroom, snack bar), ק טי ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | étkezde (berth, buttery, eating-house, lunchroom, mess, mess hall, mess room), tábori kulacs, tábori főző felszerelés, kantin (mess, mess hall, naffy, post exchange, PX, tommy), csajka (dixy, mess kit, mess tin, mess-kit), büfé (bar, buffet, cafeteria, diner, pub, refreshment room, snack bar), üzemi étkezde (tommy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kantin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mensa (board, cafeteria, cookhouse, mess, recreation room, refectory, table), cantina (basement, cellar, cellars, winery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 水' (flask, water bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すいとう (chicken pox, flask, receipts and expenditure, water bottle, wet-land rice), しゅほ (post exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 군매 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shamyr vee (dining hall, larder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | feltflaske (flask, water-bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anteencay cantina (cantina, recreation room). (various references) cantinã, canistrã (can, canister, drum, petrol can), tacâm (band, cover), sufertaş, gamelã (Dixie), bufet (bar, buffet, cabinet, closet, cupboard, luncheon bar, provision room, refectory, road house, sideboard, taproom), bidon (can, drum, flask). (various references) войсковая лавка, буфет (buffet, china closet, china-closet, coffee shop, jam closet, lunch counter, luncheonette, refreshment room, sideboard, snack bar, snack-bar), баклага (flask), б (blank, gain, ill, market, marriage, of the coast, pole, refuse, scuffle, shave, struggle, tangle, unemployment, warrior). (various references) vojna prodavnica, kantina (mess hall). (various references) cantina (buffet, cantina, post exchange, recreation room), cantimplora (cantina, water bottle). (various references) matsal (coffee room, dining room, diningroom, dining-room, refectory), marketenteri, fältflaska (water bottle, water-bottle). (various references) yemek kabı, matara (water bottle), kantin (buttery). (various references) ящик для зберігання столового срібла, солдатський клуб-їдальня, їдальня (cook-shop, dining hall, dining room, eatery, mess, refectory), фляга (flagon, flask, water can), війскова крамниця, буфет (buffet, china closet, cupboard, snack bar), похідний ящик з кухонними речами, погрібець (cellaret). (various references) hòm đựng bát đĩa dao dĩa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Italian | 900-Modern | cantina. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | cantine. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "canteen": canteens. (additional references) | |
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"Canteen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Canete, canette, cantain, cantan, cantaten, Canteena, Canteleu, cantien, cantii, Cantine, cantonee, Canty, capten, Carnteel, Carntine, chantent, Cinetel, Cuneen, Cunene, dantean, kapteeni, Khantyn, lanteen, Rantanen, santen, scaltheen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "canteen" (pronounced kantē"n) |
| 4 | -n t ē" n | nineteen, seventeen. |
| 3 | -t ē" n | eighteen, fifteen, fourteen, gelatine, preteen, sixteen, teen, thirteen, umpteen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: cetane, neaten, tenace. | |
-2 letters: anent, eaten, enact, enate, nance. | |
-3 letters: acne, ante, cane, cant, cate, cent, cete, etna, neat, nene, tace, teen. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ane, ant, ate, can, cat, cee, eat, eta, nae, nan, nee, net, tae, tan, tea, tee, ten. | |
-5 letters: ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: canteens, entrance, tangence, tendance. | |
+2 letters: ancienter, ascendent, canescent, centenary, enactment, enchanted, enchanter, entranced, entrances, enunciate, nectarine, renascent, tangences, tenancies, tendances. | |
+3 letters: abstinence, ancientest, antecedent, anteceding, anthracene, ascendents, attendance, candescent, centennial, condensate, contravene, covenanted, covenantee, covenanter, creatinine, descendant, enactments, encampment, encasement, encashment, enchanters, enlacement, enunciated, enunciates, evanescent, incinerate, intendance, interocean, nectarines, pangenetic, penetrance, phenacetin, purtenance, reenacting, reentrance, renunciate, repentance, sustenance, tangencies, transience, unaccented, uncleanest, undecadent. | |
+4 letters: abstinences, advancement, ancientness, ancientries, antecedence, antecedents, anthracenes, antiscience, archenteron, attendances, benefaction, bicentenary, cementation, centenarian, centenaries, centennials, clandestine, codefendant, concatenate, concealment, concentrate, condensates, congealment, connectable, consternate, contravened, contravener, contravenes, contredanse, countenance, counterpane, covenantees, covenanters, creatinines, crenelation, descendants, encampments, encasements, encashments, enchainment, enchantment, enchantress, enhancement, enlacements, entranceway, enucleating, enucleation, geanticline, inappetence, incalescent, incinerated, incinerates, incremental, inexactness, inheritance, intendances, interagency, intercensal, interchange, intolerance, lieutenancy, maintenance, merchantmen, noncreative, nonreactive, penetrances, pentazocine, phenacetins, preenacting, purtenances, reaccenting, reenactment, reentrances, reincarnate, renunciates, repentances, scantnesses, sustenances, transcended, transiences, trencherman, unenchanted, uninucleate. | |
+5 letters: advancements, androgenetic, announcement, antecedences, antecedently, antielectron, antisciences, antiviolence, appurtenance, archenterons, benefactions, bicentennial, carpentering, cementations, centenarians, centennially, codefendants, cogeneration, comanagement, concatenated, concatenates, concealments, concelebrant, concentrated, concentrates, conferential, congealments, consternated, consternates, containerise, containerize, contraveners, contredanses, convalescent, countenanced, countenancer, countenances, counteragent, counterpanes, crenelations, crenellation, cyanogenetic, decongestant, denunciative, disenchanted, disenchanter, enantiomeric, enchainments, enchantments, encroachment, enhancements, entrancement, entranceways, enucleations, exactingness, geanticlines, happenstance, inadvertence, inadvertency, inappetences, incandescent, inchoateness, inheritances, intactnesses, intemperance, interchained, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interchannel, internuclear, interoceanic, intolerances, itinerancies, maintenances, malcontented, mononucleate, neurasthenic, nomenclature, nonaesthetic, nonmetameric, nonnucleated, palingenetic, pentazocines, reenactments, reincarnated, reincarnates, remonstrance, renunciative, scantinesses, subtenancies, tercentenary, transcendent, transference, transiencies, translucence, transparence, trenchancies, unchasteness, uncovenanted, unnoticeable, vacantnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6E 74 65 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. - . . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a n t e e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006E 0074 0065 0065 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678086717180 |
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