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cantón

canton

noun kan-TOHN Less Common

Origin: from French canton, ultimately from Italian cantone (corner, region)

Also means

district

Usage Note

Cantón is used in Switzerland to mean one of the 26 federal states, and in some Latin American countries (notably Ecuador and Costa Rica) as an administrative subdivision equivalent to a county or municipality. In Spain the word is mostly historical or geographical. The plural cantones is regular.

Examples

"El cantón tiene su propia constitución."

Natural Translation

The canton has its own constitution.

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