Carton Definition

kärtn
cartons
noun
cartons
A cardboard box, esp. a large one, as for shipping merchandise.
Webster's New World
A boxlike container, as of light, waxed cardboard, for liquids.
Webster's New World
A full carton or its contents.
Webster's New World

An inexpensive, disposable box-like creation fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. It is designed to hold things for a short period of time and be discarded or recycled after use.

Wiktionary
verb
To put into a carton as for storage or shipment.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Carton

Noun

Singular:
carton
Plural:
cartons

Origin of Carton

  • French from Italian cartone pasteboard augmentative of carta card, paper from Latin charta, carta paper made from papyrus card1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French carton.

    From Wiktionary

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