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Canton

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Can·ton  (kntn)
1. A city of northeast Ohio south-southeast of Akron. It was the home of President William McKinley. Population: 78,900.
2. (kntn, kntn) See Guangzhou.

can·ton  (kntn, -tn)
n.
1.
a. A small territorial division of a country, especially one of the states of Switzerland.
b. A subdivision of an arrondissement in France.
2. Heraldry A small, square division of a shield, usually in the upper right corner.
3. A usually rectangular division of a flag, occupying the upper corner next to the staff.

[French, from Old French, from Old Italian cantone, augmentative of canto, corner, from Vulgar Latin *cantus; see cant1.]

canton·al (knt-nl, kn-tnl) adj.

canton
Noun
a political division of a country, such as Switzerland [Old French: corner]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.CantonCanton - a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
2.canton - a small administrative division of a country
administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes
Swiss canton - one of the cantons of Switzerland
Verb1.canton - provide housing for (military personnel)
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
lodge, accommodate - provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"
2.canton - divide into cantons, of a country
carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up, separate - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"


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The latter had to take their peltries to Canton, which, however, was a mere receiving mart, from whence they had to be distributed over the interior of the empire and sent to the northern parts, where there was the chief consumption.
In Switzerland, where the Union is so very slight, each canton is obliged to allow to merchandises a passage through its jurisdiction into other cantons, without an augmentation of the tolls.
The island is situated at the mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on the opposite coast.
 
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