Cantonese

Meanings

Adjective

• Relating to the city of Guangzhou (Canton) or the province of Guangdong.
• Relating to Cantonese people.
• Relating to Cantonese language.
• Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.

Noun

• An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.
• A Sinitic language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
• A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.

Related

Similar words

• Yue Chinese, Yue, Cantonese language, Cantonese dialect
• Cantonese dialect, Cantonese language

Narrower meaning words

• Cantonese, Cantonese dialect
• Hoisanese/Toisanese/Taishanese
• Hong Kong Cantonese

Origin

• Canton + -ese