canto
noun
one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
cantos
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pluralof canto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Sereni, who recited cantos from Dante in Italian to calm his nerves, was offered a British alias for the parachuting mission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
It is a revelatory journey but an arduous one, spanning 100 cantos and nearly 15,000 lines replete with references to the Florentine political scene, Christian theology and the world of antiquity.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021
The show convenes a suite of drawings employing that technique, made between 1958 and 1960: putative illustrations of the thirty-four cantos of Dante’s Inferno.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
His most recent album, the remarkable “New Throned King,” layers his smooth and threadlike saxophone playing over cantos and rhythmic patterns from the Arara people of western Cuba.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2017
He’d heard about witches who had things they called books of cantos and wizards with books of spells, but nothing about enchanted books.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
