CANTONESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cantonese mean? 

• CANTONESE (noun)
  The noun CANTONESE has 1 sense:

1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

  Familiarity information: CANTONESE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANTONESE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Cantonese; Cantonese dialect; Yue; Yue dialect

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)