Noun:

சுவிட்சர்லாந்தில் உள்ள நாட்டுப் பிரிவு,

canton's Usage Examples:

BANGALORE, a city of India, the capital of the native state of Mysore, and the largest British cantonment in the south of India.

to Coire, the capital of the canton of the Grisons, and then turn towards the N.

Fribourg, Switzerland (Canton) >>The canton is purely an administrative division, containing on an average, about twelve communes, though some exceptional communes are big enough to contain more than one canton.

In 1832 a strolling company of actors visited Mere, and Barnes wrote a farce, The Honest Thief, which they produced, and a comedy which was played at Wincanton.

He beares to his armes " sable 3 bells argent a canton ermine " .

VEVEY [German Vivid, a small town in the Swiss canton of Vaud and near the eastern extremity of the Lake of Geneva.

After lingering in their cantonments for two months, the British army set off in the depth of winter to find its way back to India through the passes.

RACHEL (1821-1858), French actress, whose real name was Elizabeth Felix, the daughter of poor Jew pedlars, was born on the 28th of February 1821, at Mumpf, in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland.

But since Napoleon introduced the "war of masses" the only alternative to cantoning the troops is bivouacking, which if prolonged for several nights is more injurious to the well-being of the troops than the slight relaxation of discipline necessitated by the cantonment system, when the latter is well arranged and policed.

He was here practically at the meeting-point of four distinct jurisdictions - Geneva, the canton Vaud, Sardinia and France, while other cantons were within easy reach; and he bought other houses dotted about these territories, so as never to be without a refuge close at hand in case of sudden storms.

THOMAS ERASTUS (1524-1583), German-Swiss theologian, whose surname was Luber, Lieber, or Liebler, was born of poor parents on the 7th of September 1524, probably at Baden, canton of Aargau, Switzerland.

In 1798 Lausanne became a simple prefecture of the canton Leman.

Synonyms:

administrative district, territorial division, Swiss canton, administrative division,

Antonyms:

associate, attach, stay, join, connect,