canteen – English noun declension

English noun forms of canteen

Noun: canteen
Singularcanteen
Pluralcanteens

Sample Sentences

  • Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.” [1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way]
  • He ordered a salad at the canteen.
  • Yeah, I worked that bitch. She was buying me all the canteen I wanted. [1984 December 29, Mykki Balduff, “Prisons and Roles”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 6:]
  • “Well, le’me give you some advice,” he continued. “If someone offers you some canteen, don’t take it.”
  • I instinctively knew what he was warning me against. But I felt slightly disrespected because it wasn’t as if I were a frail young girl who might go out on a date with someone and feel obligated to have sex because the guy had bought me a Happy Meal. The way I saw it, if someone wanted to give me some canteen, I was getting something for nothing! [2015 November 23, Melvin L. Boone, “Dark Corners”, in Pen America:]
  • Administrative Confinement, sort of like a jail inside the prison, this is for those waiting on disciplinary court for a violation, or under investigation, plus other things. 2 man cells, allowed your tablets, some property, some canteen including food, reading books. 4 hours outside exercise weekly after 30 days. [2024 September 11, Jordangander, “More about solitary: I get conflicting results when I look up what modern solitary is like...?”, in r/Prison:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French cantine, itself borrowed from Italian cantina. Doublet of cantina. See: French Nouns 'cantine', Italian Nouns 'cantina'.

Verbs referencing "canteen"

Swedish Nouns kantin, Irish Nouns ceaintín.