cantina

American  

[kan-tee-nuh, kahn-tee-nah] / kænˈti nə, kɑnˈti nɑ /

noun

Southwestern U.S.

plural

cantinas

1. a saloon; bar.

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cantina British  

/ kænˈtiːnə /

noun

1. a bar or wine shop, esp in a Spanish-speaking country

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Etymology

Origin of cantina

1835–45, < Spanish < Italian; canteen

Example Sentences

Luke, for his part, is described as roaming the land looking for Force artifacts, while Leia and Han will be spotted in areas near the Millennium Falcon and Oga’s Cantina, the latter tempting Han while Leia will serve the role of a recruiter.

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And Galaxy’s Edge forever lacked some of its teased and hyped elements — there were no smugglers, for instance, tapping you on the shoulder in the cantina.

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There’s a “Star Wars” cantina bit, a soupçon of James Bond in the score at a fancy gala and dashes of Steven Spielberg in the camerawork.

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“We have become so caught up in our own rhetoric of helping the little guy that we’ve stopped actually checking to make sure that we are doing that,” Mahan said over lunch at a cantina downtown.

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Salazar owned a chain of restaurants in Fresno called Bobby Salazar’s Taqueria and Bobby Salazar’s Mexican Restaurant & Cantina, according to court documents.

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