canton
canton is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A song or canto. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A song or canto
- noun. A small portion; a division; a compartment.
- noun. A small community or clan.
- noun. A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
- noun. A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- intransitive verb. To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
- intransitive verb. To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
- noun. a small administrative division of a country
- noun. a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
- verb. divide into cantons, of a country
- verb. provide housing for (military personnel)
Synonyms
guangzhou, kuangchou, kwangchow, billet, quarter
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in canton:
Common word forms
cantons, cantonal, cantoned, cantoner, cantoning, cantonize, cantonment
Words from these letters
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