Noun: carton
| Singular | carton |
| Plural | cartons |
Sample Sentences
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a carton of milk or eggs
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Mr Yunupingu was referred to the clinic where I was working at that time, Northside Clinic, for treatment of his alcohol problem. I think he described drinking between one and four cartons every single day - it's quite a phenomenal amount. [2009 October 19, Oliver O'Connell, Message From Mr Yunupingu:]
Nouns inflected like carton
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French carton, from Italian cartone. Doublet of cartoon. See: French Nouns '
carton', Italian Nouns '
cartone'.