(dated) Guangzhou, the capital and largest city of Guangdong, China. / (dated) Guangdong, a province of China. / (dated) the Pearl River, a river in southern China. / A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.

(transitive) To delineate as a separate district. / (transitive) To divide into cantons. / (transitive) To allot quarters to troops.

One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation. / A subdivision of an arrondissement of France. / A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.

(obsolete) A song or canto.

Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.

An inhabitant of a canton.

plural of cantoner

(historical, politics) A Spanish insurrectionary movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, aiming to divide the nation state into almost independent cantons.

(heraldry) Having a charge in each of the four corners; said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

simple past tense and past participle of canton