different between buttery vs canteen

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t??i/

Etymology 1

From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter +? -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin b?t?rum and -y being a doublet of -ic.

Adjective

buttery (comparative butterier, superlative butteriest)

1. Made with or tasting of butter.

   The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.

2. Resembling butter in some way, such as color or texture.

   The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
3. (informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
4. (computing, video games) Short for buttery smooth.

Synonyms

• butterish
• butterlike
• butyraceous
• butyric (rare)

Derived terms

• butteriness

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin bot?ria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.

Noun

buttery (plural butteries)

1. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 458:

     Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.

2. (Britain) A room in a university where snacks are sold.

Translations

Anagrams

• Buttrey, Tetbury, Utterby

English

Etymology

From French cantine, from Italian cantina, from Vulgar Latin canthus (“corner”), from Gaulish *cantos, denoting the location for liquor storage, from Proto-Celtic *cantos (“corner”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?nd?-. Doublet of cantina.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kæn?ti?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

canteen (plural canteens)

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

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.
6. A water bottle used by a soldier or camper.

Derived terms

• canteen culture

Translations

Further reading

• canteen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• canteen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• canteen at OneLook Dictionary Search

Spanish

Verb

canteen

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of cantear.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of cantear.
3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of cantear.