"Cantophone" meaning in English

See Cantophone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From Canto + -phone. Etymology templates: {{af|en|Canto|-phone}} Canto + -phone Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Cantophone (not comparable)
  1. (rare) Cantonese-speaking. Tags: not-comparable, rare Translations (Translations): kantoninkielinen (Finnish), kantonesischsprachig (German)
    Sense id: en-Cantophone-en-adj-qVY1rzoG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -phone, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -phone: 75 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 86 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Chinese Disambiguation of Chinese: 0 0

Noun

Forms: Cantophones [plural]
Etymology: From Canto + -phone. Etymology templates: {{af|en|Canto|-phone}} Canto + -phone Head templates: {{en-noun}} Cantophone (plural Cantophones)
  1. (rare) A person who speaks Cantonese. Tags: rare Related terms: Sinophone Translations (Translations): kantoninkielinen (Finnish), Kantonesischsprecher [masculine] (German), Kantonesischsprecherin [feminine] (German), Kantonesischsprachiger [masculine] (German), Kantonesischsprachige [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-Cantophone-en-noun-7tFZih1O Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Chinese Disambiguation of Chinese: 0 0

Inflected forms

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