Definition of Canton River

1. Noun. A river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Canton River

Canterbury
Canterbury Tales
Canterbury bell
Canterbury bells
Canterbury gallop
Cantharellus
Cantharellus cibarius
Cantharellus cinnabarinus
Cantharellus clavatus
Cantharellus floccosus
Canticle of Canticles
Canticle of Simeon
Canticles
Canton
Canton's phosphorus
Canton River (current term)
Canton crepe
Canton flannel
Canton ginger
Cantonese
Cantonese dialect
Cantor
Cantor tube
Cantorian
Cantorianly
Cantor–Bendixson theorem
Canuck
Canuckiana
Canucks
Canute

Literary usage of Canton River

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"Mr. Colquhoun is said to divide his journey into two parts—the first the " Canton river," and the second the " Yunnan river." There is no river known to ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"Index sheet of Canton river. 1080 Tasmania, north coast :—\ to New chart. ... Chu Kiang or Canton river, sheet V. Whampoa channel and ..."

3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1843)
"... fortify 1/ic banks of the Canton river—Sir H. Pottinger returns to Canton—Attempt of the Chinese to retake Ningpo—Rout of the Chinese at Tse-kee. ..."

4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"On the Canton River, 258. River Boats, 259. Execution of the Pirates, 260. ... An Old Chinese Fort, Canton River, 262. Opium-Smoking, 262. ..."

5. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"Even the poorer classes adorn their humbler dwellings with cheaper specimens of pictorial art, and scarcely a boat of any pretensions on the Canton River ..."

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