About The Word Canton

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Canton

Canton Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Canton?
[n] a small administrative division of a country
[n] a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; a major deep-water port [v] divide into cantons, of a country [v] provide housing for, of military personnel Synonyms | Synonyms for Canton: billet | Guangzhou | Kuangchou | Kwangchow | quarter Related Terms | Find terms related to Canton: achievement | alerion | animal charge | annulet | archbishopric | archdiocese | argent | armorial bearings | armory | arms | arrondissement | azure | bailiwick | bandeau | bar | bar sinister | baton | bearings | bend | bend sinister | billet | bishopric | blazon | blazonry | bordure | borough | broad arrow | cadency mark | chaplet | charge | chevron | chief | city | coat of arms | cockatrice | commune | congressional district | constablewick | coronet | county | crescent | crest | cross | cross moline | crown | departement | device | difference | differencing | diocese | district | duchy | eagle | electoral district | electorate | ermine | ermines | erminites | erminois | escutcheon | falcon | fess | fess point | field | file | flanch | fleur-de-lis | fret | fur | fusil | garland | government | griffin | gules | gyron | hamlet | hatchment | helmet | heraldic device | honor point | hundred | impalement | impaling | inescutcheon | Kreis | label | lion | lozenge | magistracy | mantling | marshaling | martlet | mascle | metal | metropolis | metropolitan area | motto | mullet | nombril point | oblast | octofoil | okrug | or | ordinary | orle | pale | paly | parish | pean | pheon | precinct | principality | province | purpure | quarter | quartering | region | riding | rose | sable | saltire | scutcheon | sheriffalty | sheriffwick | shield | shire | shrievalty | soke | spread eagle | stake | state | subordinary | tenne | territory | tincture | torse | town | township | tressure | unicorn | vair | vert | village | wapentake | ward | wreath | yale See Also | accommodate | administrative district | administrative division | carve up | China | city | Communist China | dissever | divide | lodge | mainland China | metropolis | People's Republic of China | PRC | Red China | separate | split | split up | Swiss canton | territorial division | urban center Canton In Webster's Dictionary \Can"ton\, n.
A song or canto [Obs.]
Write loyal cantons of contemned love. --Shak.
\Can"ton\, n. [F. canton, augm. of OF. cant edge, corner. See 1st {Cant}.] 1. A small portion; a division; a compartment. That little canton of land called the ``English pale'' --Davies. There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. --Bp. Burnet. 2. A small community or clan. 3. A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See {Arrondissement}. 4. (Her.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms. --Evelyn. \Can"ton\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cantoned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cantoning}.] [Cf. F. cantonner.] 1. To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. --Locke. 2. (Mil.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
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