kanton : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

kanton [kan.tun.] :

canton (n.); cantonese (n.)

Derivatives of kanton
Notes:
pansit kanton
cantonese noodle

Glosses:

canton
n. (location)	1. canton, guangzhou, kuangchou, kwangchow	a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port.
	~ city, metropolis, urban center	a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts.; "Ancient Troy was a great city"
	~ port	a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country.
	~ cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china	a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world.
n. (location)	2. canton	a small administrative division of a country.
	~ administrative district, administrative division, territorial division	a district defined for administrative purposes.
	~ swiss canton	one of the cantons of Switzerland.
v. (stative)	3. billet, canton, quarter	provide housing for (military personnel).
	~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine	the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
	~ lodge, accommodate	provide housing for.; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"
v. (social)	4. canton	divide into cantons, of a country.
	~ carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up, separate	separate into parts or portions.; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
cantonese
n. (communication)	1. cantonese, cantonese dialect, yue, yue dialect	the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
	~ chinese	any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system.