Associations to the word «Cantonese»
Noun
- Mandarin
- Guangzhou
- Chinatown
- Macau
- Pronunciation
- Taiwanese
- Hong
- Kong
- Chinese
- Dialect
- Cuisine
- Korean
- Vietnamese
- Cheung
- Noodle
- Lingua
- Wong
- Chow
- Malay
- Lai
- Lam
- Hindi
- Tong
- Cheng
- Mei
- Japanese
- Kung
- Portuguese
- Arabic
- Chan
- Wu
- Sui
- Nan
- Flushing
- Jade
- Spanish
- Immigrant
- Migrant
- Hui
- Mainland
- English
- Chung
- Ng
- Language
- Tang
- Italian
- Min
- Canton
- Gan
- Fu
- Speaker
- Spoke
- Sauce
- Yi
- Chen
- Vocabulary
- Manhattan
- China
- Ling
- Malaysia
- Taiwan
- Kuala
- Huang
- Restaurant
- Dish
- Anita
- Variety
- Singapore
- Han
- Beijing
- Liu
- Tamil
- Ho
- Surname
- Yale
- Cinema
- Southeast
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
CANTONESE, adjective. Relating to Canton.
CANTONESE, adjective. Relating to Cantonese people.
CANTONESE, adjective. Relating to Cantonese language.
CANTONESE, adjective. Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.
CANTONESE, noun. (countable) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.
CANTONESE, proper noun. (uncountable) A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
CANTONESE, proper noun. (uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.
Dictionary definition
CANTONESE, noun. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.