Definitions for Cantos

Cantos can·to

Spelling: [kan-toh]
IPA: /ˈkæn toʊ/

Cantos is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in Cantos (acnost).

Definitions for Cantos

noun

  1. one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.

Origin of Cantos

1580-90; Italian Latin cant(us) singing, song, equivalent to can(ere) to sing + -tus suffix of v. action; cf. cant1, chant

Examples for Cantos

What insight into the life of the clansmen is furnished in this canto?

With these losses, the canto still contains 130 stanzas, or 526 lines.

And with much force and animation she read them bits from the first canto.

What is the purpose of the dialogue in the early part of canto V?

Four lines at the end of this canto are among the most famous in the poem.

Can you discover any plan in the division of the canto into stanzas?

This was at the time when he wrote the second canto of "Childe Harold."

The first canto of The Island was finished January 10, 1823.

What is the purpose of canto IV in the development of the story?

In the mouth, nevertheless, of the fiend Astarotte, canto xxv.

Word Value for Cantos
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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