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    CANTONESE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    Cantonese; Cantonese dialect; Yue; Yue dialect

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    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)

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