noun
- plural of canto; major divisions or sections of a long poem
Usage: literary
Examples
- Dante’s Divine Comedy is divided into 100 cantos.
- The epic poem contains twelve cantos in total.
- Students analyzed the first three cantos of the work.
- Each canto tells a different part of the hero’s journey.
- The professor assigned cantos four through six for homework.
- Byron’s Don Juan consists of seventeen cantos.