Definition of Cantan
Canton (1,800), chief commercial city and port of Southern China;
stands on a river almost on the seaboard, 90 m. NW. of Hong-Kong, and is
a healthy town, but with a heavy rainfall; it is surrounded by walls, has
narrow crooked streets, 125 temples, mostly Buddhist, and two pagodas, 10
and 13 centuries old respectively; great part of the population live in
boats on the river; the fancy goods, silk, porcelain, ivory, and metal
work are famous; its river communication with the interior has fostered
an extensive commerce; exports, tea, silk, sugar, cassia, &c.
- Wikipedia
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- One of the states making up the Confederation of Switzerland.
- An subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
- A subdivision of Luxembourg (the country).
- A subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
French
- canton (of Switzerland, France or Luxembourg)
Canton- An alternative (former) name for Guangzhou in China.
French
- Canton
Italian
- (form of cantone used in names of cantons) the canton of
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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