the canteen is 'la cantine' (fem.) in French. The pronounciation is very close.
Cantine It is also a feminine word e.g. The canteen = La cantine.
They eat with their family at home, their colleagues at thier job's canteen, their mates at the school's canteen.
'une cantine' le midi, je mange à la cantine: at lunch, I eat at the canteen
"la cantine" is the canteen in French. This is pronounced the same.
canteen?
Canteen .
It's a 'Canteen of cutlery'.
French teenagers eat lunch in the school canteen, or at home if they have time to get there (or when not at school).
mercantile commissary canteen
Water-bottle or canteen.
The collective nouns are canteen of water and a canteen of cutlery.
Canteen is officially thought to originate from tne French cantine or Italian cantina, however the similarity to the Chinese "Can Ting" which directly translated means food hall suggests that the origin may well be Chinese.