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    A canton is one of the areas a country is divided into, with some power of its own but not as a fully separate country. Switzerland is the example everyone learns: each Swiss canton can make many of its own rules — schools, tax, police — while they still belong to one country.

    A canton is one of the areas a country is divided intocanton是一個國家劃分出來的其中一個區域，with some power of its own but not as a fully separate country有一定的自主權，但不是完全獨立的國家。Switzerland is the example everyone learns瑞士是大家都會學到的例子：each Swiss canton can make many of its own rules瑞士的每個canton都能訂出很多自己的規則——schools, tax, police像是教育、稅務、警政——while they still belong to one country但它們仍然屬於同一個國家。

    The word came into English in the 1530s from Middle French canton, from Old French canton, “corner”: a canton started as a corner of land. The land-area sense is from about 1600. Though actually, English also uses canton for a little square in the corner of a flag or a coat of arms (from the 1570s); that is the same “corner” idea, not a different word.

    The word came into English in the 1530s from Middle French canton這個字在1530年代從中古法文canton傳入英文，from Old French canton, "corner"而中古法文又來自古法文canton，意思是『角落』：a canton started as a corner of landcanton最初指的就是一塊地的角落。The land-area sense is from about 1600表示土地區域的意思大約從1600年開始出現。Though actually, English also uses canton for a little square in the corner of a flag or a coat of arms (from the 1570s)不過英文也用canton指旗幟或紋章角落的一小塊方形（從1570年代就有這個用法），that is the same "corner" idea, not a different word那其實是同一個『角落』的概念，不是另外一個字。

    For , the Swiss-style area is the meaning that matters. It is a formal word, for maps and news. It is not Canton, the old English name for in China — that place-name is a different story.

    For learners, the Swiss-style area is the meaning that matters對學習者來說，瑞士這種行政區的意思才是重點。It is a formal word, for maps and news這是一個正式的字，用在地圖和新聞裡。It is not Canton, the old English name for Guangzhou in China它不是Canton，那個舊時英文對中國廣州的稱呼——that place-name is a different story那個地名是另外一回事。

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組成From Middle French canton, from Old French canton, “corner” (1530s). Heraldic “corner of a flag” from the 1570s; the country-area sense from about 1600.

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  • cantonmentsoldiers were housed, or “cantoned”, in a district; that camp became a cantonment

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Cantonname詞源 1/ˌkænˈtɒn/

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    Several places in China:

    • The Province of Quantung lies along upon the Sea-ſhore, having many convenient Havens and Harbors ; it contains ten Counties, and eighty great and ſmall Cities. Quancheu, or Canton by the Portugals, is the Metropolis and chief of the Province ; exceedingly beautified with Pagodes, Palaces, ſtately Structures, and Triumphal Arches ; fortified with ſtrong Walls, Towers, Bulwarks and Redoubts, defended by five Caſtles.
    • Canton is alſo the name of a large, populous, and wealthy city and port-town of China, ſituated on the river Ta, about fifty miles from the Indian ocean... It is a fortified place, within the walls of which no Chriſtians are permitted to enter, notwithſtanding their great trade thither; it being from thence that they import all manner of Chineſe goods, as china-ware, tea, cabinets, raw and wrought ſilks, gold-duſt, &c.
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    Several places in China:

    • XVIII. Quanton, or Canton, lies Eaſt and South from Quanſi, and is the moſt Southern Province of the Empire. Nieuhoff ſays, here are ſeveral ſafe Harbours and Roads, that it produces all Neceſſaries for Life, and has two Harveſts a year. Their Winter is very warm, and their Fields always verdant.
    • The black tea imported by the East-India Company is grown and manufactured in the province of Fokien, with the exception of about one-third of that sort called by us bohea, which third part is produced in the north-eastern corner of the province of Canton, in a district called Wo-Ping, which gives its name to the tea in question.
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Cantonname詞源 2/ˈkæntən/

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Cantonname詞源 3

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    An inner city district and community in Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1676).

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    A topographical surname from French.

cantonnoun詞源 1/ˈkæntən/

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    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.
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    A division of a political unit.

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    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."
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    A division of a political unit.

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    obsoleteA division of a political unit.

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    A small community or clan.

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    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).

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    governmentheraldryhobbiesA 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.

cantonverb詞源 1/ˈkæntən/

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    To delineate as a separate district.

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    To divide into cantons.

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    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
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    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.

cantonnoun詞源 2

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    obsoleteA song or canto.

    • Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。