carton
noun/ˈkɑːtn/
/ˈkɑːrtn/
- a light box or pot made of thick card or plastic for holding goods, especially food or liquid; the contents of a carton
- a milk carton/a carton of milk
- a carton of fruit juice/ice cream
Extra Examples- The soup is sold in cartons.
- Why are these milk cartons so difficult to open?
- an empty milk carton
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cardboard
- plastic
- egg
- …
- open
- in a/the carton
- carton of
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- (North American English) a large container in which goods are packed in smaller containers
- a carton of cigarettes
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French, from Italian cartone, from carta, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’.
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