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cantonists

cantonists is the plural of cantonist.

Meaning of cantonist

Noun

cantonist (plural cantonists)

  1. (historical) A young boy in the Russian Empire who was taken to a special school to be trained for future compulsory military service.

Questions about cantonists

What is cantonists the plural of?
Cantonists is the plural of cantonist.

Words near cantonists in the dictionary

  1. cantonise
  2. cantonised
  3. cantonises
  4. cantonising
  5. cantonist
  6. cantonists
  7. cantonization
  8. cantonizations
  9. cantonize
  10. cantonized
  11. cantonizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cantonists (page history and authors); cantonist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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