Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A bar that serves liquor.

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  • noun A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.
  • noun this sense?) Abbreviated form of cantina truck, cantina wagon or cantina trailer

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, canteen, from Italian, wine cellar.]

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From Spanish cantina.

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Examples

  • _sotto una cantina_, and this cantina is known to have been in the

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Also something to bear in mind – The Mos Eisley cantina is anything but a small, cramped place.

    Know your role – Lesson Two: Cannons ARE canon. 2010

  • In another, told in a flashback, Ifan's Gavin Canavagh rediscovers his love of rock 'n' roll in a Latin American cantina when a local man plays the Stones '"Get Off of My Cloud" on a jukebox.

    ScrippsNews SHNS 2010

  • Over the weekend, Luz, a pan-Latin American cantina on Vanderbilt Avenue near Myrtle Avenue was the site of another attempted burglary.

    The Brooklyn Paper: Full articles By Mike McLaughlin 2008

  • Not "A New Hope," but "Star Wars," the title it carried in 1977 when Han shot first and the stiff rubber/plastic aliens in the cantina were the coolest thing anyone had ever seen.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Ulysses 2009

  • Not "A New Hope," but "Star Wars," the title it carried in 1977 when Han shot first and the stiff rubber/plastic aliens in the cantina were the coolest thing anyone had ever seen.

    Why I Don't Write Star Wars Ulysses 2009

  • In his travel which took him to a mountain village where Pancho Villa was reported to be staying Cousin Leo in search of someone who could speak English wandered into a drinking establishment which in Mexico is called a cantina or at least was when Cousin Leo chanced into one.

    Dancing in the Dark Kaminsky, Stuart 1996

  • The Duel Ring Another area of the cantina is the most fun one, the dueling ring.

    IGN Complete 2010

  • Stephen's theme is the universal yearning for escape from everyday cares, and his cantina is the place of refuge.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • Stephen's theme is the universal yearning for escape from everyday cares, and his cantina is the place of refuge.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

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