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CANTONESE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
Synonyms:
Cantonese; Cantonese dialect; Yue; Yue dialect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Cantonese" is a kind of...):
Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)