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Cantophones

Cantophones is the plural of Cantophone.

Meaning of Cantophone

Noun

Cantophone (plural Cantophones)

  1. (rare) A person who speaks Cantonese.
    • Akin to Shu-mei Shih's concept of the Sinophone, the Hong Kong Cantophone, too, defines itself in opposition to China's Mandarin culture by emphasizing linguistic difference rather than ethnic sameness, postcolonial hybridity rather than ethnonational solidarity.2023 December 18, Belinda Kong, SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic, Duke University Press, →ISBN

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Questions about Cantophones

What is Cantophones the plural of?
Cantophones is the plural of Cantophone.

Words near Cantophones in the dictionary

  1. cantonments
  2. cantons
  3. cantoon
  4. cantoons
  5. Cantophone
  6. Cantophones
  7. Cantopop
  8. cantor
  9. Cantor dust
  10. Cantor set
  11. Cantor sets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cantophones (page history and authors); Cantophone (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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