Found 3 items, similar to canton.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: canton daerah, distrik, ulayat, wilayah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: canton canton v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet] 2: divide into cantons, of a country
English → English (gcide) Definition: Canton Canton \Can"ton\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cantoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Cantoning.] [Cf. F.cantonner.] 1. To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. [1913 Webster] They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. [1913 Webster] Canton \Can"ton\, n. A song or canto [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Canton \Can"ton\, n. [F. canton, augm. of OF. cant edge, corner. See 1st Cant.] 1. A small portion; a division; a compartment. [1913 Webster] That little canton of land called the “English pale” --Davies. [1913 Webster] There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] 2. A small community or clan. [1913 Webster] 3. A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. [1913 Webster] 4. (Her.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. [1913 Webster] The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]