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Added 10 October 2026

canton

/ˈkæntən/ noun

In Latin: pāgus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about canton at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port.
A small administrative division of a country.

verb

Provide housing for (military personnel).
Divide into cantons, of a country.

Origin

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

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