cantonese
/K AE0 N T AH0 N IY1 Z/adjective
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Relating to Cantonese language.
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Relating to the city of Guangzhou (Canton) or the province of Guangdong.
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Relating to Cantonese people.
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Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.
noun
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(uncountable) A Sinitic language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
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(uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.
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(countable, chiefly in the plural) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.
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