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Noun
/ˈkanˌtō/,
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cantos, plural;
  1. One of the sections into which certain long poems are divided

  1. the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
  2. a major division of a long poem
  3. The canto is a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic. The word comes from Italian, from the Latin canto, meaning "I sing". ...
  4. Canto is an album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in December 1996 by Lloyd with Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, and Billy Hart.
  5. Canto is a terminal based aggregator for online news. It supports all major news formats (RSS/RDF and Atom), as well as importing from and exporting to OPML. The news content is downloadable and as such Canto also has limited podcasting support. ...
  6. Canto is the 5th studio album (6th album overall including the live album Unplugged at Kafka) by C-rock band Soler. It performed successfully on the Hong Kong charts. ...
  7. The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards. ...
  8. A subdivision of an epic poem. Each of the three books of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" is divided into cantos. For example, in each of the cantos of "The Inferno," Dante meets the souls of people who were once alive and who have been condemned to punishment for sin. Return to Menu
  9. A major division of an extended narrative poem, such as an epic, as distinguished from shorter divisions like stanzas.
  10. subdivision of an Italian epic or long narrative poem, such as Dante's Divina Commedia, first employed in English by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, popularized by Byron in "Don Juan," and restored to epic dignity by Ezra Pound in his Pisan Cantos.
  11. A sub-division of an epic or narrative poem comparable to a chapter in a novel. Examples include the divisions in Dante's Divine Comedy, Lord Byron's Childe Harold, or Spenser's Faerie Queene. Cf. fit.
  12. derivation from k â n d a: part or section, chapter, book. A name for the books or twelve sections of this p u r â n a, the Bhâgavatam.
  13. A piece of something. “Mira canto de cabron!” (“Hey, piece of shit!) Sexually speaking, “canto” refers to the reproductive organs. “No te voy a dar el canto” (“Im not going to give you sex” or “Im not going to let you have sex with me”) To get or give a “piece”.
  14. Generally, it means one of the principal divisions of a long poem. In this instance, it means a boxing round. Example: In the opening canto, Ishii landed a solid right to the champ’s cheek.
  15. chorus; choral; chant
  16. corner, street corner