canto
IPA: kˈæntoʊ
noun
- One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
- (music) The treble or leading melody.
- (music) The designated division of a song.
- (informal) The Cantonese language.
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Examples of "canto" in Sentences
- The choir became The Bel Canto Chorus.
- The major locus of these cantos is the city of Venice.
- The end of each canto suggests the topic for the next.
- That is the core of the 28th Canto of the Divine Comedy.
- He was the brother of the bibliographer Ernesto do Canto.
- In the I Canto the poet describe his impressions of the world.
- In the eighth canto, the nymphs enjoy themselves on the mountain.
- In the previous canto the poet identified himself with the leaves.
- The result of the new, more confident, Canto was immediate and stunning.
- The diction is the same as that used in earlier cantos on similar subjects.