carton

See also: cartón and Carton

English

A one-litre carton of Arla brand semi-skimmed milk

Etymology

Borrowed from French carton, from Italian cartone. Doublet of cartoon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtən/, /ˈkɑːtn̩/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtn̩/, [ˈkʰɑɹʔn̩]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tən

Noun

carton (countable and uncountable, plural cartons)

1. An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.

   Synonyms: cardboard box, container, package

   a carton of milk or eggs

2. A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.

   Meronym: pack

3. (Australia) A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

   Synonym: case

   • 2009 October 19, Oliver O'Connell, Message From Mr Yunupingu‎^[1]:

     Mr Yunupingu was referred to the clinic where I was working at that time, Northside Clinic, for treatment of his alcohol problem. I think he described drinking between one and four cartons every single day - it's quite a phenomenal amount.

4. (archaic) A kind of thin pasteboard.
5. (archaic) A small disc within the bullseye of a target.
6. (archaic) A shot that strikes this disc.

Derived terms

• carton girl
• carton-pierre
• egg carton
• juice carton

 

Translations

box-like container

• Arabic: كَرْتُون (ar) m (kartūn), كَرْتُونَة f (kartūna)
• Bulgarian: кашон m (kašon)
• Burmese: ကာတွန်း (my) (ka-twan:)
• Catalan: bric (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紙箱／纸箱 (zh) (zhǐxiāng)

• Dutch: karton (nl)
• Finnish: pakkaus (fi), kartonki (fi), tölkki (fi), laatikko (fi), rasia (fi), kenno (fi)
• French: carton (fr) m
• German: Karton (de) m
• Icelandic: ferna (is) f
• Indonesian: karton (id)
• Japanese: 紙パック (かみパック, kamipakku)
• Khmer: ប្រអប់ (km) (prɑʼɑp)
• Korean: 갑 (ko) (gap)
• Lao: ຫີບເຈັ້ຍ (hīp chia)
• Maori: kātene
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: kartong
• Persian: کارتن (fa) (kârton)
• Portuguese: caixa/embalagem de papel f
• Russian: коро́бка (ru) f (koróbka), паке́т (ru) m (pakét)
• Spanish: caja (es)
• Swahili: katoni
• Swedish: kartong (sv) c
• Thai: กล่อง (th) (glɔ̀ng)
• Tibetan: ཤོག་སྒམ (shog sgam)
• Vietnamese: hộp (vi), hộp giấy, hộp các-tông

a carton of cigarette packs

• Arabic: عَرُوسَة f (ʕarūsa)
• Armenian: բլոկ (hy) (blok)
• Belarusian: блок m (blok)
• Bulgarian: стек m (stek)
• Dutch: slof (nl)
• Finnish: kartonki (fi)
• French: cartouche (fr) f
• German: Stange (de) f
• Indonesian: slop
• Italian: stecca (it) f
• Khmer: សុង (km) (song)
• Polish: blok (pl) m
• Romanian: cartuș (ro) n
• Russian: блок (ru) (blok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ште̏ка f

  Roman: štȅka (sh) f

• Spanish: cajetilla (es) f
• Swedish: limpa (sv) c
• Ukrainian: блок (uk) m (blok)

Verb

carton (third-person singular simple present cartons, present participle cartoning, simple past and past participle cartoned)

1. To put in a carton.

Anagrams

• Cantor, Carnot, Catron, Contra, TRACON, cantor, contra, contra-, corant, craton, tracon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cartone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.tɔ̃/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: cartons

Noun

carton m (plural cartons)

1. cardboard
2. carton, cardboard box
3. target
4. (art) sketch; cartoon
5. (cartography) inset map
6. card

Derived terms

• carton jaune
• carton rouge
• cartonner
• en carton
• faire un carton

 

Further reading

• “carton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• contra

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French carton.

Noun

carton n (plural cartoane)

1. cardboard

Declension

Declension of carton

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) carton	cartonul	(niște) cartoane	cartoanele
genitive/dative	(unui) carton	cartonului	(unor) cartoane	cartoanelor
vocative	cartonule		cartoanelor

Related terms

• cartona
• cartonabil
• cartonaj
• cartonare
• cartonaș
• cartonat
• necartonat