Canteen
title: "Canteen" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public topic_path: "uncategorized" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canteen" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Canteen most often refers to:
- Canteen (bottle), a water container
- Cafeteria, a type of food service location within an institution in which there is little or no waiting staff table service
- A complete set of cutlery comprising knives, forks, and spoons, usually sufficient for several place-settings at a meal
- An archaic use was to describe a sutler's shop, where provisions were sold to the military.
Canteen may also refer to:
Places
- Canteen Township, St. Clair County, Illinois, a township in Illinois
- North Platte Canteen, a railroad stop in North Platte, Nebraska, United States that operated from 1941 to 1946
Other uses
- Canteen (magazine), an English-language literary and arts magazine
- CanTeen, the Australian and New Zealand national support organisation for young people with cancer
- Canteen, a railway tender, hauled by a steam locomotive, which holds only water
- Canteen (prison), or prison commissary, a store within a prison where inmates can buy sundries
- "The Canteen", a 1969 episode of On the Buses
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