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Word entry · 6 letters

canton

Best crossword clue

"Swiss division"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkæntən/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acnnotStarts with CEnds with N2 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2A3N4T5O6N

Definitions

  1. divide into cantons, of a country

Word origin

1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.

Used in a sentence

  • These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people
  • 20 May, 1686, Gilbert Burnet, letter from Nimmengen There is another piece of Holbein's, […] in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Saviour's passion are represented.
  • The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Swiss division6 letters
02Swiss district6 letters

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