canton
n. 州, 行政区 vt. 驻扎, 划成行政区
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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
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2.
A division of a political unit.
One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
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3.
A division of a political unit.
An administrative division within a department in France, often being a subdivision of an arrondissement.
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A division of a political unit.
A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
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A division of a political unit.
A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
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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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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.
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A song or canto.
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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.
及物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.
不及物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.
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词源
1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.
来源：wiktionary