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CANTON RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canton River mean? 

CANTON RIVER (noun)
  The noun CANTON RIVER has 1 sense:

1. a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Seaplay

  Familiarity information: CANTON RIVER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CANTON RIVER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Canton River; Chu Kiang; Pearl River; Zhu Jiang

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Canton River" is a part of...):

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)


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