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noun kanˈtɒn 1A subdivision of a country established for political or administrative purposes. 行政分区 they rejected the possibility of dividing the country into cantons Example sentencesExamples - Confederate authorities should do nothing to ensure their Jewishness, since matters of worship and education will be exclusive privileges of the constituent cantons.
- Together, they in turn promoted an enhanced consciousness of belonging to an imagined community existing beyond the canton - to nationalism.
- For now, political leaders say they'll settle for federations, like the provinces that make up Canada or the cantons in Switzerland, retaining much of their power within a federal system.
- Israel has in effect divided the West Bank into two cantons, splitting up families and denying them access to secondary and tertiary medical care.
- One promising arrangement could be a confederation of independently governed areas or cantons, to be established in the territory between the Jordan and the Mediterranean.
- Cantonal police units and a nominal confederate police, initially aided by an international contingent, should maintain public order and ensure peaceful relations between diverse cantons.
- Alongside the BiH state elections, there were also elections to the parliaments at entity level and in the Croat-Muslim Federation's cantons.
- Barak's proposal divided Palestine into four separate cantons surrounded by Israel: the Northern West Bank, the Central West Bank, the Southern West Bank and Gaza.
- They will also elect three multi-ethnic state presidency members, a Serb Republic president and assemblies for 10 cantons in the Muslim-Croat federation.
- That left the Palestinians with only the cantons, hardly a viable state capable of offering the traumatized and destitute Palestinians any genuine sovereignty, economy, or hope for a better future.
- The capital of the new canton, however, was located at its south-western corner, where the major Iron Age stronghold at Chichester was succeeded by the Roman town of Noviomagus.
- His province was subdivided into districts and the latter into towns and cantons.
- Israel would retain control over links between the cantons, as well as the border with Jordan and would have overflying rights.
- Gaza is also divided into three separate cantons.
- As for the Camp David offer, Palestinians argue that it would have left them with a series of non-contiguous cantons, not a real state.
- 3 The canton of Paraiso sits in the province of Cartago, but the Ministry of Agriculture distinguishes between various production regions in the country for the purpose of programming.
- It is divided into two ethnic cantons, separated by the river Ibar.
- The limitations of the hegemonic strategy employed by Stuttgart were revealed beginning in 1796 when several Black Forest cantons agitated for reform to the ducal political system.
- These are divided up into small cantons, separated by armed checkpoints restricting virtually all movement.
- Drawn up by another Liberal Democrat leader, Lord David Owen and US envoy Cyrus Vance, the plan envisaged Bosnia being divided up into 10 autonomous provinces or cantons largely along ethnic lines.
- 1.1 A state of the Swiss Confederation.
（瑞士联邦的）州 Example sentencesExamples - In Switzerland, where Catholics and Protestants had long been at odds, most of the Swiss cantons introduced civil marriage.
- Many of the most popular card games in Switzerland, especially in the German speaking cantons, belong to the Jass group, and are played with characteristic Swiss cards, which have come to be known as Jass cards.
- In Holland, France, the Scandinavian countries, and a handful of Swiss cantons, women did gain access to at least some fields of legal practice around the turn of the century.
- The mostly German-speaking cantons, or provinces, are divided nearly equally between the two religious affiliations.
- It emphasizes democracy, decentralization, and the sovereignty of individual cantons, which give much autonomy to individual communities.
- Of the twenty-six cantons, twenty-two are officially monolingual.
- These original communities were called cantons, and today Switzerland's twenty-six provinces are called by the same name.
- Some cantons, such as those of eastern Switzerland and Geneva, Neuchâtel, and Valais, apply their own stricter limits, however, and national average yields are about the same as in France.
- In Switzerland, some cantons have introduced mandatory insurance for every homeowner, a move that helped spread the costs of coverage; they even engage in a system of reinsurance among the cantons.
- Japan would then join a small group of countries, mostly those bastions of democratic enlightenment such as Sweden, the Netherlands and some cantons of Switzerland, in granting the franchise to outsiders.
- He wants Zurich to act as a model for other cantons after the justice ministry refused to tackle the subject until 2007.
- In addition, the cantons and over 3,000 communes have preserved their autonomy and decide numerous issues by popular vote.
- Residents of Switzerland are subject to personal income taxes levied by the central government and also by the 26 cantons and 2,900 municipalities.
- At least three cantons - Bern, Geneva and Zurich - began changing the nationality designation of Taiwanese when issuing or renewing their residence permits about two months ago.
- With votes in from more than half the Swiss cantons by mid-afternoon, the proposal had been formally rejected though the majority was not yet known.
- Geneva was not yet part of Switzerland and the city allied with the cantons of Bern and Fribourg against Savoy.
- The division between cantons held at 11-11 for two hours until Zurich, the largest canton, weighed in on the side of the UN supporters, assuring their victory.
- However, given the country's federal regime and the importance of its constituent parts, the cantons, in the Swiss's political as well as daily life, one must examine the linguistic distribution at this level also.
- The Christian Democrats, a moderate party that is particularly strong in the Catholic cantons.
- On August 1, 1291, three Alpine cantons swore the oath of confederation, an act that later came to be regarded as the foundation of Switzerland.
Synonyms province, federal state, region, territory, department, county, area, district, sector, zone
2Heraldry
A square charge smaller than a quarter and positioned in the upper (usually dexter) corner of a shield. 〔纹章〕盾面右上角方形部位 Example sentencesExamples - All of them included a St George's cross, sometimes overall but mostly in the upper, inner quarter - the canton as it is known in heraldry.
- In both cases, cobalt blue was used to accent certain elements including the bells, the man's shoes, shirt, and hat, and the cantons of the flags.
- The Australian flag of course features the British union flag in the canton, a flag which signifies, intrinsically, the union of the English, Irish and Scottish nations.
Synonyms district, constituency, division, quarter, zone, parish, community, department
OriginEarly 16th century: from Old French, literally 'corner', from Provençal, based on a Romance word related to medieval Latin cantus (see cant2). proper nounkanˈtɒnˈkænt(ə)n another name for Guangzhou
Rhymesaide-de-camp, aides-de-camp, anon, Asunción, au courant, begone, Bonn, bon vivant, Caen, Carcassonne, Ceylon, chaconne, chateaubriand, ci-devant, Colón, colon, Concepción, con (US conn), cretonne, don, Duchamp, Evonne, foregone, fromage blanc, Gabon, Garonne, gone, guenon, hereupon, Inchon, Jean, john, Jon, Le Mans, León, Luzon, Mont Blanc, Narbonne, odds-on, on, outgone, outshone, Perón, phon, piñon, Pinot Blanc, plafond, Ramón, Saigon, Saint-Saëns, Sand, Schwann, scone, shone, side-on, sine qua non, Sorbonne, spot-on, swan, thereon, thereupon, ton, Toulon, undergone, upon, Villon, wan, whereon, whereupon, won, wonton, yon, Yvonne lantern, Scranton proper noun An industrial city in north-eastern Ohio; population 78,362 (est. 2008). The Professional Football Hall of Fame is here.
noun 1A subdivision of a country established for political or administrative purposes. 行政分区 they rejected the possibility of dividing the country into cantons Example sentencesExamples - Alongside the BiH state elections, there were also elections to the parliaments at entity level and in the Croat-Muslim Federation's cantons.
- Drawn up by another Liberal Democrat leader, Lord David Owen and US envoy Cyrus Vance, the plan envisaged Bosnia being divided up into 10 autonomous provinces or cantons largely along ethnic lines.
- The limitations of the hegemonic strategy employed by Stuttgart were revealed beginning in 1796 when several Black Forest cantons agitated for reform to the ducal political system.
- For now, political leaders say they'll settle for federations, like the provinces that make up Canada or the cantons in Switzerland, retaining much of their power within a federal system.
- His province was subdivided into districts and the latter into towns and cantons.
- Israel has in effect divided the West Bank into two cantons, splitting up families and denying them access to secondary and tertiary medical care.
- It is divided into two ethnic cantons, separated by the river Ibar.
- 3 The canton of Paraiso sits in the province of Cartago, but the Ministry of Agriculture distinguishes between various production regions in the country for the purpose of programming.
- They will also elect three multi-ethnic state presidency members, a Serb Republic president and assemblies for 10 cantons in the Muslim-Croat federation.
- The capital of the new canton, however, was located at its south-western corner, where the major Iron Age stronghold at Chichester was succeeded by the Roman town of Noviomagus.
- That left the Palestinians with only the cantons, hardly a viable state capable of offering the traumatized and destitute Palestinians any genuine sovereignty, economy, or hope for a better future.
- Israel would retain control over links between the cantons, as well as the border with Jordan and would have overflying rights.
- Gaza is also divided into three separate cantons.
- One promising arrangement could be a confederation of independently governed areas or cantons, to be established in the territory between the Jordan and the Mediterranean.
- Together, they in turn promoted an enhanced consciousness of belonging to an imagined community existing beyond the canton - to nationalism.
- Barak's proposal divided Palestine into four separate cantons surrounded by Israel: the Northern West Bank, the Central West Bank, the Southern West Bank and Gaza.
- As for the Camp David offer, Palestinians argue that it would have left them with a series of non-contiguous cantons, not a real state.
- Cantonal police units and a nominal confederate police, initially aided by an international contingent, should maintain public order and ensure peaceful relations between diverse cantons.
- These are divided up into small cantons, separated by armed checkpoints restricting virtually all movement.
- Confederate authorities should do nothing to ensure their Jewishness, since matters of worship and education will be exclusive privileges of the constituent cantons.
- 1.1 A state of the Swiss Confederation.
（瑞士联邦的）州 Example sentencesExamples - In addition, the cantons and over 3,000 communes have preserved their autonomy and decide numerous issues by popular vote.
- Residents of Switzerland are subject to personal income taxes levied by the central government and also by the 26 cantons and 2,900 municipalities.
- The Christian Democrats, a moderate party that is particularly strong in the Catholic cantons.
- These original communities were called cantons, and today Switzerland's twenty-six provinces are called by the same name.
- Many of the most popular card games in Switzerland, especially in the German speaking cantons, belong to the Jass group, and are played with characteristic Swiss cards, which have come to be known as Jass cards.
- In Switzerland, where Catholics and Protestants had long been at odds, most of the Swiss cantons introduced civil marriage.
- The division between cantons held at 11-11 for two hours until Zurich, the largest canton, weighed in on the side of the UN supporters, assuring their victory.
- However, given the country's federal regime and the importance of its constituent parts, the cantons, in the Swiss's political as well as daily life, one must examine the linguistic distribution at this level also.
- On August 1, 1291, three Alpine cantons swore the oath of confederation, an act that later came to be regarded as the foundation of Switzerland.
- In Holland, France, the Scandinavian countries, and a handful of Swiss cantons, women did gain access to at least some fields of legal practice around the turn of the century.
- Japan would then join a small group of countries, mostly those bastions of democratic enlightenment such as Sweden, the Netherlands and some cantons of Switzerland, in granting the franchise to outsiders.
- With votes in from more than half the Swiss cantons by mid-afternoon, the proposal had been formally rejected though the majority was not yet known.
- Some cantons, such as those of eastern Switzerland and Geneva, Neuchâtel, and Valais, apply their own stricter limits, however, and national average yields are about the same as in France.
- It emphasizes democracy, decentralization, and the sovereignty of individual cantons, which give much autonomy to individual communities.
- He wants Zurich to act as a model for other cantons after the justice ministry refused to tackle the subject until 2007.
- Geneva was not yet part of Switzerland and the city allied with the cantons of Bern and Fribourg against Savoy.
- In Switzerland, some cantons have introduced mandatory insurance for every homeowner, a move that helped spread the costs of coverage; they even engage in a system of reinsurance among the cantons.
- Of the twenty-six cantons, twenty-two are officially monolingual.
- At least three cantons - Bern, Geneva and Zurich - began changing the nationality designation of Taiwanese when issuing or renewing their residence permits about two months ago.
- The mostly German-speaking cantons, or provinces, are divided nearly equally between the two religious affiliations.
Synonyms province, federal state, region, territory, department, county, area, district, sector, zone
2Heraldry
A square charge smaller than a quarter and positioned in the upper (usually dexter) corner of a shield. 〔纹章〕盾面右上角方形部位 Example sentencesExamples - All of them included a St George's cross, sometimes overall but mostly in the upper, inner quarter - the canton as it is known in heraldry.
- The Australian flag of course features the British union flag in the canton, a flag which signifies, intrinsically, the union of the English, Irish and Scottish nations.
- In both cases, cobalt blue was used to accent certain elements including the bells, the man's shoes, shirt, and hat, and the cantons of the flags.
Synonyms district, constituency, division, quarter, zone, parish, community, department
OriginEarly 16th century: from Old French, literally ‘corner’, from Provençal, based on a Romance word related to medieval Latin cantus (see cant). proper nounˈkænt(ə)nˈkant(ə)n An industrial city in northeastern Ohio; population 78,362 (est. 2008). The Professional Football Hall of Fame is here.
proper nounkænˈtɑnkanˈtän another name for Guangzhou
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