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say it: KAH-nuh-pay
canape is a noun meaning "an appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food". It is pronounced /ˈkɑnəˌpeɪ/ — KAH-nuh-pay. It carries one recorded sense.
an appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for canape come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.