Canto meaning

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One of the principal divisions of a long poem.
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Any of the main divisions of certain long poems, corresponding to the chapters of a book.
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One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
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Origin of canto

  • Italian from Latin cantus song canticle
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Canto Sentence Examples

  • In the canto just cited Pope Nicholas III.

  • The suspicion of some earlier scholars that the Praefatio and the Versus might be a modern forgery is refuted by the occurrence of the word vitteas, which is the Old Saxon fittea, corresponding to the Old English fitt, which means a "canto" of a poem.

  • Wi canto` Gilljn am Y aritro d ?

  • A little to the west is the Auld Brig o' Balgownie, a picturesque single arch spanning the deep black stream, said to have been built by King Robert I., and celebrated by Byron in the tenth canto of Don Juan.

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