canton

名词 n. 动词 v.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  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 song or canto. obsolete
    — Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
  3. A division of a political unit.; One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
  4. A division of a political unit.; An administrative division within a department in France, often being a subdivision of an arrondissement.
    — 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."
  5. A division of a political unit.; A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
  6. A division of a political unit.; A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township. obsolete
  7. A small community or clan.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
    — The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.
动词 v.
  1. To delineate as a separate district. transitive
  2. To divide into cantons. transitive
  3. To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population. transitive
    — 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. intransitive
    — 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.

词形变化

cantons plural kanton alternative cantons present,singular,third-person cantoning participle,present cantoned participle,past cantoned past kanton alternative cantons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cantoner cantonise cantonize canton of Zurich

词源

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