Canton definitions

kăn'tən, -tŏn'
A small, square division of a shield, usually in the upper right corner.
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A usually rectangular division of a flag, occupying the upper corner next to the staff.
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A small territorial division of a country, especially one of the states of Switzerland.
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A subdivision of an arrondissement in France.
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A city of northeast Ohio south-southeast of Akron. It was the home of President William McKinley.
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Any of the political divisions of certain countries or territories.
  • Any of the main divisions of Switzerland.
  • A division of an arrondissement in France.
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A small, square section of a shield, usually in the upper dexter corner.
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A rectangular section in a flag, in the upper corner nearest the staff.
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To divide into cantons.
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To assign quarters to (troops, etc.); quarter.
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A division of a political unit.
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A small community or clan.
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A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side (e.g., the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
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(heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
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To delineate as a separate district.
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(obsolete) A song or canto.
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(historical) The Chinese city of Guangzhou.
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(historical) The Chinese province of Guangdong.
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A topographical surname​ of French or Galician derivation.
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Origin of canton

French from Old French from Old Italian cantone augmentative of canto corner from Vulgar Latin cantus cant1

Sentence Examples

  • Baden was the capital of the canton of Baden, from 1798 to 1803, when the canton of Aargau was created.

  • BADEN, a town in the Swiss canton of Aargau, on the left bank of the river Limmat, 14 m.

  • to Coire, the capital of the canton of the Grisons, and then turn towards the N., past Ragatz, the valley broadening out, and the river being joined on the right by the Landquart and the Ill, before it expands into the Lake of Constance.

  • Bern, Switzerland (Canton) >>

  • From this point the river is navigable to Canton.

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