Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CANTEEN

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Definitions of CANTEEN

1. A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
2. A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
3. A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
4. A military mess kit.
5. A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink

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Examples of Using CANTEEN in a Sentence

• At Birchinlee, a "model village" was built; its infrastructure included hospitals, school, canteen (pub), post office, shops, recreation hall, public bath house, police station, railway station, rubbish dump with incinerator, and much else.
• Academie Vassilieff located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris (Montparnasse), became a popular place, and during World War I Vassilieff turned the property into a canteen (cafeteria) serving inexpensive meals to artist in the neighborhood.
• The site was guarded until shortly after privatisation by the MoD Police, which had its barracks and canteen opposite the main gates.
• all-star revue Hollywood Canteen (1944, singing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds") and the RKO Hollywood-themed comedy Ding Dong Williams (1945, singing "Cool Water").
• Instead, he bought two cheeseburgers, a steak sub, and two Cokes from the prison canteen, for which he paid $4.
• When Sentain hands a canteen of water to another soldier who is being punished by being forced to dig a large hole in the heat of the day, Galoup chastises Sentain and knocks the water from his hand.
• Some parties come fully catered in the form of regular barbecues or even employment of a catering staff running a public canteen.
• The diner served loosemeat sandwiches similar to the specialty of the fictional Lanford Lunch Box on Roseanne, which in turn was based on the real-life Canteen Lunch in the Alley in Ottumwa.
• NAAFI personnel serving aboard ship are part of the Naval Canteen Service (NCS), wear naval uniform and have action stations, but remain ordinary civilians.
• More recent developments include the Atwell building - which houses Maths and Geography - and the Ashton building - which houses the school's new canteen as well as four Biology laboratories.
• The centre including a Coles Supermarket, DeMarias Grocer, Cannings Butcher, Gong Cha, Earl Canteen, Sushi & Nori and Cobb Lane.
• Morrissey returned to television in 2002 playing Franny Rothwell, a factory canteen worker who wants to adopt his dead sister's son, in an episode of Paul Abbott's Clocking Off.
• To improve conditions and boost morale, the Army constructed a bathhouse at the fort (in which every man at the fort was required to bathe at least once a week), a post toilet (complete with flush toilets), and a post canteen (where the men could read current magazines, play pool, and buy beer and wine).
• The Kingswood site, which included sports fields, a park, a large and luxurious swimming pool, a canteen and a simulacrum of an English pub, among other facilities, was expanded in the 1950s and again in the 1980s.
• The player's health is replenished by drinking from a canteen of water, which can be refilled at certain points in each level.
• This company started off with a paid-up capital of , and the shareholding was confined to the canteen contractors.
• School facilities include a library, a gymnasium, an oval, futsal courts, basketball courts, volleyball courts, cricket practice nets, a canteen, a STEM makerspace and a performing arts block.
• In April 2019 the new Matairangi block opened, providing open-plan learning spaces, a new library, canteen, art studios, food technology rooms, music facilities and a media suite, along with a Maori learning space or Wharenui.
• The dish is often included in cookbooks, with versions gracing the covers of books by the Canteen restaurant, as well as books by The Hairy Bikers.
• Other elements of the society provide or support a range of functions at the Duxford site, including canteen, aircraft conservation, learning and interpretative activities and administrative tasks.
• The following year, TW Services changed its name to The Flagstar Companies in its bid to focus on the food service industry with a portfolio of businesses including Volume Services America, Hardee's, Quincy's Family Steakhouse, El Pollo Loco, Canteen Corporation and Denny's.
• Other facilities include meeting and community rooms, a gymnasium, fitness and cardio rooms, racquetball and squash courts, a running track, water slides, and a canteen (not yet opened following renovations).
• The test platoons carried one K-ration, weapon, poncho, shelter half, and a single filled one-quart canteen.
• From 1941 to 1946, the North Platte Canteen served baked goods and refreshments to more than six million service members during a 10-minute stop as they were convoyed across the United States.
• Brophy Memorial Library, study facilities, IT facilities, canteen, students, online learning via moodle.

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