Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cantonese_dialect

1 sense of cantonese dialect

Sense 1
Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect -- (the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China)
       => Chinese -- (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)