Canton

Alternative forms

 * kanton

Pronunciation

 * (especially in the flag sense)
 * (especially in the flag sense)

Noun

 * 1) A division of a political unit
 * 2) One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
 * 3) A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
 * 4) A division of Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
 * 5) A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side (e.g., the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).

Verb

 * 1) To delineate as a separate district.

Thesaurus
Kreis, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, archbishopric, archdiocese, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arrondissement, azure, bailiwick, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, bishopric, blazon, blazonry, bordure, borough, broad arrow, cadency mark, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, city, coat of arms, cockatrice, commune, congressional district, constablewick, coronet, county, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, departement, device, difference, differencing, diocese, district, duchy, eagle, electoral district, electorate, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, government, griffin, gules, gyron, hamlet, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, hundred, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, magistracy, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, metropolis, metropolitan area, motto, mullet, nombril point, oblast, octofoil, okrug, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, parish, pean, pheon, precinct, principality, province, purpure, quarter, quartering, region, riding, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shield, shire, shrievalty, soke, spread eagle, stake, state, subordinary, tenne, territory, tincture, torse, town, township, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, village, wapentake, ward, wreath, yale