carton

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a box made of cardboard

   The missing child was posted on the milk carton.

2. 2
   noun

   the quantity contained in a carton

   We have a carton of milk.

3. 3
   noun

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

   a carton of milk or eggs

4. 4
   noun

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

   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.

5. 5
   name

   A surname.

   The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

   A kind of thin pasteboard.

8. 8
   noun

   A small disc within the bullseye of a target.

Etymology

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