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noun
- 1. one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided: "Dante's Divine Comedy has 100 cantos"
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noun [ C ] literature specialized uk / ˈkæn.təʊ / us / ˈkæn.toʊ / Add to word list. a section of a long poem: Dante's Divine Comedy has 100 cantos. We examine canto 12, Book IV of Spenser's "Faerie Queen". Fewer examples. Lord Byron published the first cantos of Don Juan anonymously. The book guides the reader through the cantos of Dante's Inferno.
: one of the major divisions of a long poem. Examples of canto in a Sentence. the first canto of Dante's “Inferno” Recent Examples on the Web Rachmaninoff’s variations—to plush D-flat major, and slows Paganini’s brisk tempo to the melting andante cantabile of a bel-canto aria.
Canto is a subdivision or part in a narrative or epic poem, consisting of five or more lines such, as a stanza, which could also be a canto. The word “canto” originates from the Latin word cantus, which means “a song.”
The canto (Italian pronunciation:) is a principal form of division in medieval and modern long poetry.
The word “canto” means “song” in Italian, but the first examples of cantos date back to the time of Homer when epics were recited orally. Cantos are used for epic poems such as Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Iliad’. These poems can reach thousands of lines and even thousands of pages.
noun [ C ] literature specialized us / ˈkæn.toʊ / uk / ˈkæn.təʊ / Add to word list. a section of a long poem: Dante's Divine Comedy has 100 cantos. We examine canto 12, Book IV of Spenser's "Faerie Queen." Fewer examples. Lord Byron published the first cantos of Don Juan anonymously. The book guides the reader through the cantos of Dante's Inferno.
Canto definition: one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.. See examples of CANTO used in a sentence.
Canto is an Italian word coming from Latin which means song or singing. From Italian it was borrowed in English to mean a section of a poem. Definitions of canto. noun. a major division of a long poem. see more. noun. the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music. see more. Pronunciation. US. /ˌkænˈtoʊ/ UK. /ˈkæntəʊ/
canto, major division of an epic or other long narrative poem. An Italian term, derived from the Latin cantus (“song”), it probably originally indicated a portion of a poem that could be sung or chanted by a minstrel at one sitting.
A canto (CAN-toe) is the major unit of division in epics or other long narrative poems. Similar in function to a stanza, a canto helps divide a lengthy poem into discrete units, demarcating sections and enabling a coherent story to unfold.
