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say it: kan-tuh-NEEZ
cantonese is a noun meaning "the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China". It carries one recorded sense.
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
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 cantonese 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.