canteen

«canteen» in Mova's school dictionary: a room or place in a school, factory or office where… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a canteen, canteens)

meaning for a pupil

1) A canteen is a room or place in a school, factory or office where people buy or get meals. tree →

2) A canteen is a small bottle for carrying water, used by soldiers, campers and hikers. tree →

3) A canteen of cutlery is a box with a set of knives, forks and spoons. tree →

4) Long ago, a canteen could also mean a soldier's kit or the useful qualities a person carries with them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday school life in the UK, Australia and New Zealand pupils eat lunch in the canteen (also called dining hall; in the US «cafeteria»; in Australia the «tuckshop» is a kind of canteen). Camping and hiking: fill your canteen before a walk.

examples

• We have lunch in the school canteen. tree →
• The canteen sells soup and sandwiches. tree →
• Fill your canteen with water before the hike. tree →
• The soldier drank from his canteen. tree →
• The canteen is noisy at lunchtime. tree →
• Grandma keeps the silver cutlery in a canteen. tree →
• The boy was active, pleasant of speech, and good-humored; that is the best canteen, said his old comrades. tree →

note

Countable: canteens. Spelled with double e at the end: canteen. Word for school dining rooms differs: canteen (UK, Australia), cafeteria or lunchroom (US), tuckshop (Australia, for the shop).

In the corpora

• One mouse in the canteen becomes "rats everywhere, the school's closing".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «canteen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.