Definitions for canteens

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canteens can·teen

Spelling: [kan-teen]

IPA: /kænˈtin/

Canteens is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in canteens (aceennst).

Definitions for canteens

noun

1. a small container used especially by soldiers and hikers for carrying water or other liquids.
2. a general store and cafeteria at a military base.
3. a place where free entertainment is provided for military personnel.
4. a place, as in a factory, school, or summer camp, where refreshments and sometimes personal supplies are sold.
5. a recreation center or social club, especially for teenagers.
6. a place set up to dispense food during an emergency.
7. a snack bar.
8. British. a box or chest for cutlery and other table utensils.

Origin of canteens

1730-40; French cantine Italian cantina cellar, perhaps derivative of canto corner (see cant²) with -ina -ine¹

Examples for canteens

Blake dashed his face with the cupful of water still left in the canteen.

Set at liberty for the time being, we recruits made for the canteen.

This revived him, and he offered us his canteen, in which was some excellent Jamaica.

Ashton had half drained the canteen on the way up the mountain.

“Being popular online is like sitting at the cool table in the canteen…In a mental hospital,” he wrote.

She spent 12-hour days at the Red Cross canteen, doing whatever was needed.

“The profit from the canteen goes directly back into the facility,” says Van Wickler.

When they were ready, she filled his canteen for him and took a sip 190 from it “for luck.”

I said: 'I can get you Burma tobacco, but I don't keep a canteen up my sleeve.'

I wish this crool war was over, an' we'd get back to canteen.