canto
pronunciation
How to pronounce canto in British English:
UK [ˈkæntəʊ]
How to pronounce canto in American English:
US [ˈkæntoʊ]
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- Noun:
- the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
- a major division of a long poem
Word Origin
- canto
- canto: see chant
- canto (n.)
- 1580s, from Italian canto "song," from Latin cantus "song" (see chant (v.)). As "a section of a long poem," used in Italian by Dante, in English first by Spenser.
Example
- 1. He learned to bel canto in a conservatory .
- 2. Writing new canto with book of nuclear energy domain again .
- 3. But I 'll do everything I canto get her back .
- 4. The doctor are doing whatever they canto save him .
- 5. In geneva he wrote the third canto of childe harold and the narrative poem the prisoner of chillon .