canton
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: 1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.
Inflected forms:
form: cantons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kanton
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cantons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cantoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cantoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cantoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kanton
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A division of a political unit.
pos: noun
examples: These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people
20 May, 1686, Gilbert Burnet, letter from Nimmengen
There is another piece of Holbein's, […] in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Saviour's passion are represented.
gloss: A division of a political unit.
pos: noun
gloss: A division of a political unit.
pos: noun
examples: According to a peasant novelist from the Bourbonnais, this was just as true in the 1840s as it was before the Revolution: "We had not the slightest notion of the outside world. Beyond the limits of the canton, and beyond the known distances, lay mysterious lands that were thought to be dangerous and inhabited by barbarians."
gloss: A division of a political unit.
pos: noun
gloss: A division of a political unit.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A small community or clan.
pos: noun
gloss: A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.
gloss: To delineate as a separate district.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To divide into cantons.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To the end of husbanding the supplies, he will cause to be cantoned in the cities and villages the greatest possible numbers of troops
gloss: To be allotted such quarters.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: An army, falling back upon its lines of magazines, may … make its retreat with more security than one which has to canton, to subsist, and to extend itself to find cantonments.
Derived words: cantoner
cantonise
cantonize
canton of Zurich
Translations:
lang: Macedonian
word: канто́н
roman: kantón
lang: Manx
word: kerrin
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kanton
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ugao
lang: Spanish
word: cantón
lang: Swedish
word: kanton
lang: Catalan
word: cantó
lang: Dutch
word: vrijkwartier
lang: Finnish
word: kolkka
lang: French
word: canton
lang: German
word: Freiviertel
lang: Irish
word: cúinneán
lang: Italian
word: cantone
lang: Polish
word: kanton
lang: Portuguese
word: cantão
lang: Spanish
word: cantón
lang: Swedish
word: kanton