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Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: 'part, corner', from Italian cantone, from canto; CANTEEN

canton

 noun
     
Related topics: Government
can‧ton [countable]
PG one of the areas that a country such as Switzerland is divided up into, that has limited political powers
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