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# canteen

«canteen» in Mova's school dictionary: **a room or place in a school, factory or office where…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a canteen, canteens)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A canteen is a room or place in a school, factory or office where people buy or get meals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#m1)

2) A canteen is a small bottle for carrying water, used by soldiers, campers and hikers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#m2)

3) A canteen of cutlery is a box with a set of knives, forks and spoons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#m3)

4) Long ago, a canteen could also mean a soldier's kit or the useful qualities a person carries with them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday school life in the UK, Australia and New Zealand pupils eat lunch in the canteen (also called dining hall; in the US «cafeteria»; in Australia the «tuckshop» is a kind of canteen). Camping and hiking: fill your canteen before a walk.

### examples

- We have lunch in the school canteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#x1)
- The canteen sells soup and sandwiches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#x2)
- Fill your canteen with water before the hike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#x3)
- The soldier drank from his canteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#x4)
- The canteen is noisy at lunchtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#x5)
- Grandma keeps the silver cutlery in a canteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#x6)
- The boy was active, pleasant of speech, and good-humored; that is the best canteen, said his old comrades. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/#x7)

### note

Countable: canteens. Spelled with double e at the end: canteen. Word for school dining rooms differs: canteen (UK, Australia), cafeteria or lunchroom (US), tuckshop (Australia, for the shop).

### In the corpora

- [One mouse in the canteen becomes "rats everywhere, the school's closing".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «canteen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canteen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.