Usually means: Container typically for liquids, eggs.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word carton:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. carton: Merriam-Webster
  2. carton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carton, carton: Wordnik
  7. carton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Carton, carton: Wiktionary
  9. carton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carton: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carton, carton: Dictionary.com
  13. carton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. carton: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Carton (surname), Carton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Carton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. carton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. carton: Rhymezone
  19. carton, carton (m), cartn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Carton: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. carton: FreeDictionary.org
  22. carton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. carton: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. carton: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carton: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. carton: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carton: Glossary of Paper Terms

(Note: See cartoning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
noun:  A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
noun:  (Australia) A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
noun:  (archaic) A kind of thin pasteboard.
noun:  (archaic) A small disc within the bullseye of a target.
noun:  (archaic) A shot that strikes this disc.
verb:  To put in a carton.
noun:  A surname.

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