Definitions for canteen

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canteen can·teen

Spelling: [kan-teen]

IPA: /kænˈtin/

Canteen is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in canteen (aceennt).

Definitions for canteen

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 canteen

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

Examples for canteen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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