canteen

Borrowed from French cantine, itself borrowed from Italian cantina. Doublet of cantina.

• enPR: kăn-tēnʹ
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kænˈtiːn/, /kænˈtin/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [kʰɛə̯nˈtin]

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• Rhymes: -iːn

canteen (plural canteens)

1. A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
   1. (Hong Kong) A cafeteria in a school or place of work.
2. A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
3. A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
4. A military mess kit.
5. A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink
   • 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way :

     Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”

• Cantonese: can (ken⁶, ken^6-2, “canteen; cafeteria; restaurant”)

• “canteen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “canteen”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “canteen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

canteen

1. inflection of cantear:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative