Kanton

Kanton

1. An island of Kiribati.
   • 2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 August 2019, page 2:

     I extend also words of thanks to Neeti Komeri who supervised the census operation in the Line islands, and to Kairoronga who kindly agreed to enumerate people on Kanton island.

2. A village on Kanton, Kiribati.

• Report on the Kiribati 2015 Census of Population and Housing

• IPA^(key): [ˈkanton]

Kanton m inan

1. Guangzhou (the capital and largest city of Guangdong, in southeastern China)

From English Canton, from Portuguese Cantão, from Chinese 廣東／广东 (Guǎngdōng).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnton/, [ˈkɑ̝n̪t̪o̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑnton
• Syllabification^(key): Kan‧ton
• Hyphenation^(key): Kan‧ton

Kanton

1. Guangzhou (the capital and largest city of Guangdong, in southeastern China)

• kannot, konnat

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtoːn/
• (Switzerland) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnton/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -oːn

Borrowed from French canton.

Kanton m (strong, genitive Kantons, plural Kantone)

1. canton (state of Switzerland)

   Synonym: Stand

2. (heraldry) canton
3. (historical) canton (military enrollment district of Prussia, made obsolete by introduction of universal conscription in 1813)
4. township (of Canada)

Kanton n (proper noun, genitive Kantons or (optionally with an article) Kanton)

1. Canton (former name of Guangzhou, the capital and largest city of Guangdong in southeastern China)
2. (rare) Canton (former name of Guangdong, a province in southeastern China)

• “Kanton”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

Kanton

1. Rōmaji transcription of カントン

• IPA^(key): /kɑnˈtoːn/

Kanton m (plural Kantoner)

1. canton

Internationalism; compare English Canton, French Canton, Russian Канто́н (Kantón), ultimately from Portuguese Cantão, from Mandarin 廣東 / 广东 (Guǎngdōng). Doublet of Guangdong.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tɔn/
• Rhymes: -antɔn
• Syllabification: Kan‧ton
• Homophone: kanton

Kanton m inan (related adjective kantoński)

1. Guangzhou (the capital and largest city of Guangdong, China)

• “Kanton”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “Kanton”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)
• Kanton in PWN's encyclopedia

• IPA^(key): /kantɔn/, [ˈkantɔn]
• Rhymes: -antɔn
• Hyphenation: Kan‧ton

Kanton m inan

1. Guangzhou (the capital and largest city of Guangdong, in southeastern China)