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canteen

[kan-teen] / kænˈtin /


NOUN
container for liquids, used in travels
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The college has been experimenting in its canteen, external, offering staff and students root-to-tip meals, such as banana skin curry.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Danso said some of her pupils in Bagnolet do not get a full meal in the school canteen because funding has not been paid out.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

"We've got 50 minutes to eat at lunchtime but there are 2,000 of us that need to get through the canteen."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The final plan adopted in 2022 added details such as meeting facilities, a fitness center, canteen, Patriot Store and other “community-serving activities.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Garrett, seeing Kelton’s shell-shocked state, offers him his canteen.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

At the height of the Cold War, Moscow operated an airport on Svalbard and three mining towns complete with state-of-the-art health facilities and 24-hour canteens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Imperial College London dropped beef from most of its canteens two years ago, replacing it with venison alongside chicken and pork.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Year 11 students were initially told to use a hatch and eat outside, but following feedback, the school allowed Year 11s to use other year groups' canteens during a specified time period.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

Exposing people to positive social norms, using posters in canteens encouraging vegetable consumption, or in bars to discourage dangerous levels of drinking, have been shown to work.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

He’s ushered into a courtyard encircled with razor wire, where eight or nine other Germans sit in their high boots holding battered canteens, one dressed in women’s clothes in which he apparently tried to desert.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr


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