canton
/ˈkæntən/noun, verb2 syllables
Canton means: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port.
Synonyms for canton5
noun, as in a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow
verb, as in provide housing for (military personnel)
What does canton mean?4
noun
1
a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
2
a small administrative division of a country
verb
1
provide housing for (military personnel)
2
divide into cantons, of a country
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Canton in a sentence
- Does their father work for the canton?hoffmania
- My dream is to study Cantonese in Canton.shekitten
- Why do you speak Cantonese so well when you just came to Canton?LeeSooHa
- He'll sail from Philadelphia to Canton.Ussis
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of canton
as a noun
- plural
- cantons
as a verb
- third-person singular
- cantons
- present participle
- cantoning
- past participle
- cantoned
- past tense
- cantoned