canton

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

cantonskanton

1.
A division of a political unit.
These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people
2.
A small community or clan.
3.
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).
4.
(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.
5.
(obsolete)A song or canto.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

cantons

V_ing/Gerund

cantoning

V_ed/pp

cantonedkanton

1.
(transitive)To delineate as a separate district.
2.
(transitive)To divide into cantons.
3.
(transitive)To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population.
To the end of husbanding the supplies, he will cause to be cantoned in the cities and villages the greatest possible numbers of troops
4.
(intransitive)To be allotted such quarters.
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.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

cantonercantonisecantonizecanton of Zurichpancit canton

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Nguồn gốc từ

1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (corner); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.