In Siena neighbors started singing a traditional Tuscan folk song, Il Canto della Verbena, one of the town's most cherished melodies and sung since the Middle Ages.
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Canto
//ˈkæntəʊ//
Synonyms for "canto" (78 found)
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Related words (39)
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7 entriesTranslations
11 translations across 10 languages.
German
2 entries- Canto noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
- Gesang noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Hungarian
1 entries- ének noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Indonesian
1 entries- kanto noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Latvian
1 entries- dziedājums noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Macedonian
1 entries- пеење noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Polish
1 entries- pieśń noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Romanian
1 entries- cânt noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Russian
1 entries- песнь noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Spanish
1 entries- canto noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Swedish
1 entries- sång noun (one of the chief divisions of a long poem)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
I think most people born here can’t speak it, but they understand it. It’s so strange that my Chinese friends can speak Canto, and my Japanese friends can speak their language, but it doesn’t work that way for us here
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In reaction to when the Chinese girls would speak Canto or Mando around us, we created a language – we came up with a language.
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But Mandarin is the bigger language anyway, not many other parts of China speak Canto.
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