cantonese dialect

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   the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

   SynonymsYueYue dialectCantonese

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Questions about cantonese dialect

What does cantonese dialect mean?

cantonese dialect means "the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China".

What is another word for cantonese dialect?

Close synonyms include Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cantonese dialect a common word?

cantonese dialect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.