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cantar de plano: to spill the beans
cantar el gallo: to run out; to reach the deadline
cantar la victoria: to claim victory
cantar las cuarenta: to read the riot act; tick off; scold; reprimand; (to someone) to state an opinion firmly and even bluntly, without caring if the other person might get offended; to score a big achievement or victory in any field
cantarada: synonym of cántaro
cantarera: A type of wooden vase
cantaridina: cantharidin
cantarse el playball: to start; get started; to play ball
cantarín: melodic, singsong; fond of singing, enjoying a singsong
cantarín: singer
cantata: cantata
cantatriz: female singer
cantautor: singer-songwriter
cantaxantina: canthaxanthin
cantazo: hit, strike
cante: song
cantear: to chamfer; to tilt; to slant; to do (something) wrongly or sloppily; to mess up
cantegril: slum
cantera: quarry; talent, ingeniosity; academy, reserve team; tuff
canterano: One who comes from an academy; an academian; homegrown player
cantero: small flowerbed; breadcrust
cantero: quarry worker, quarryman; stonemason
cantería: stonecutting
cantidad: amount; quantity; figure; plenty; shedload
cantidad: like hell; a hell of a lot; shedloads
cantidad de movimiento: quantity of motion
cantidad de sustancia: amount of substance
cantidad variable: variable quantity
cantidades: a lot
cantiga: cantiga
cantil: cliff; shelf (underwater)
cantilena: cantilena
cantimplora: flask, canteen (water bottle)
cantina: saloon, speakeasy, bar; wine cellar; place in the house where drinking water is stored; liquor cabinet; glass milk bottle
cantinas: plural of cantina; saddlebag
cantinela: old story, same old same old, same old song and dance; gist
cantinero: bartender
cantinflear: to gibber (to speak unintelligibly or incoherently)
cantinflesco: in the style of Cantinflas, a Mexican comedy actor
cantito: accent (regional manner of pronouncing a language)
cantiña: a palo (style) of flamenco from Cádiz, alegrías, mirabrás, romeras or caracoles
canto: singing; song; chant
canto: edge; corner, especially the intersection of two streets; side; thickness; a piece of stone
canto a lo poeta: Sung poetry traditional to Chile.
canto de cuna: lullaby
canto de sirena: siren song
canto de un duro: tiny weeny bit
canto del cisne: swan song
canto fúnebre: dirge
canto gregoriano: Gregorian chant
canto tirolés: yodeling
cantonado: cantoned
cantonal: canton; cantonal (of or relating to a canton)
cantonalismo: cantonalism
cantonalista: a believer in cantonalism
cantonalización: dividing (of a territory) into cantons
cantonera: cornerpiece, corner table; corner bracket (fixture); streetwalker
cantonización: cantonization
cantonizar: to form into cantons (the administrative subdivision)
cantonés: Cantonese