Usually means: Section of a long poem.
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  1. canto: Merriam-Webster
  2. canto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. canto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. canto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canto, canto: Wordnik
  7. Canto, canto: Wiktionary
  8. canto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. canto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. canto: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Canto, canto: Dictionary.com
  12. canto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Canto (Charles Lloyd album), Canto (Los Super Seven album), Canto (disambiguation), Canto (news aggregator), Canto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Canto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. canto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. canto: Rhymezone
  17. Canto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. canto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. CANTO: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. canto: FreeDictionary.org
  21. canto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. canto: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. canto: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CANTO: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. canto: Encyclopedia

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  1. CANTO: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canto: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cantos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
noun:  (music) The treble or leading melody.
noun:  (music) The designated division of a song.
noun:  (informal) The Cantonese language.

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