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canton
/ˈkæntən/
name 10noun 6verb 4
Collocations
4ADJ.
live, small
VERB + CANTON
came, study, work
CANTON + NOUN
egypt, portugals
PREP.
from, in
Definitions
noun
1
A division of a political unit.
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.
2
A division of a political unit.
3
A division of a political unit.
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."
4
A division of a political unit.
5
A division of a political unit.
verb
1
To delineate as a separate district.
2
To divide into cantons.
3
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
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.
noun
1
A song or canto.
Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
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These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people
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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.
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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 th
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To the end of husbanding the supplies, he will cause to be cantoned in the cities and villages the greatest possible numbers of troops
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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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Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
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