Usually means: Place to eat and drink.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. canteen: Merriam-Webster
  2. canteen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canteen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. canteen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. canteen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canteen, canteen: Wordnik
  7. canteen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. canteen: Wiktionary
  9. canteen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. canteen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. canteen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Canteen, canteen: Dictionary.com
  13. canteen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. canteen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CanTeen, Canteen (bottle), Canteen (magazine), Canteen (place), Canteen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Canteen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. canteen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. canteen: Rhymezone
  19. Canteen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. canteen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Canteen: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. canteen: FreeDictionary.org
  23. canteen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. canteen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. canteen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Canteen (place): Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. canteen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. canteen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
noun:  (Hong Kong, India, Malaysia) A cafeteria in a school or place of work.
noun:  Goods purchased from a prison canteen.
noun:  A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
noun:  A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
noun:  A military mess kit.
noun:  A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink

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