canto

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: can=to

CIDE DICTIONARY

canto, n. [It. canto, fr. L. cantus singing, song. See Chant.].

•  One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.  [1913 Webster]
•  The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.  [1913 Webster]

∥Canto fermo ( [It.] (Mus.), the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

canto, n. (pl. -os) a division of a long poem.

Etymology

It., = song, f. L cantus

THESAURUS

canto

Spenserian stanza, accompaniment, air, alto, antistrophe, aria, baritone, bass, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, book, burden, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, chorus, continuo, contralto, couplet, descant, distich, drone, envoi, epode, figured bass, ground bass, heptastich, hexastich, lay, line, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, monostich, note, octastich, octave, octet, ottava rima, part, pentastich, plain chant, plain song, prick song, quatrain, refrain, rhyme royal, septet, sestet, sextet, solo, solo part, song, soprano, soprano part, stanza, stave, strain, strophe, syllable, tenor, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, thorough bass, treble, triplet, tristich, tune, undersong, verse, voice, voice part

ROGET THESAURUS

canto

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.