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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  datedSeveral places in China:

Cantonname詞源 2/ˈkæntən/

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  A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.

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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).

Cantonname詞源 4

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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.