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valley
English
Etymology
From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vall?s/vallis. Doublet of vlei.
Pronunciation
- enPR: v?l'?, IPA(key): /?væli/
- Rhymes: -æli
Noun
valley (plural valleys)
- An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
- Synonyms: (poetic) vale; see also Thesaurus:valley
- The area which drains into a river.
- Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
- The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
Hyponyms
- closed-cut valley
- open valley
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- dale
- dell
- vale
Anagrams
- y'all've
Manx
Noun
valley
- Lenited form of balley.
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canton
English
Etymology 1
1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.
Alternative forms
- kanton
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæntn?/
- IPA(key): /?kænt?n/ (especially in the flag sense)
Noun
canton (plural cantons)
- A division of a political unit.
- 1912, Joseph McCabe (translator), We Must Take Sides; or, The Principal of Action (originally by Voltaire)
- These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people
- 20 May, 1686, Gilbert Burnet, letter from Nimmengen
- One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
- A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
- A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
- (obsolete) A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
- 1912, Joseph McCabe (translator), We Must Take Sides; or, The Principal of Action (originally by Voltaire)
- A small community or clan.
- 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).
- (heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
Translations
Verb
canton (third-person singular simple present cantons, present participle cantoning, simple past and past participle cantoned)
- (transitive) To delineate as a separate district.
- (transitive) To divide into cantons.
- (transitive) To allot quarters to troops.
Etymology 2
Noun
canton (plural cantons)
- (obsolete) A song or canto.
Anagrams
- Conant, Nacton, cannot, noncat
French
Etymology
From Middle French canton, from Old French canton (from the 1240s), from Old Occitan canton (“corner; canton”) (recorded before 1218), adopted in Occitan from North Italian (Gallo-Italic, early Lombard) cantone (“edge, corner; canton”), ultimately representing Latin cant- (“rim (of a wheel)”) with the addition of the -? (accusative -?nem) suffix forming augmentatives in Romance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.t??/
Noun
canton m (plural cantons)
- canton (of Switzerland, France or Luxembourg)
- township (of Canada)
- (heraldry) canton
Descendants
- ? German: Kanton
Further reading
- “canton” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Occitan
Etymology
From Gallo-Italic cantone. From canto + -one. Related to Latin canthus (“rim (of a wheel)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan?tu/
Noun
canton m (plural cantons)
- corner
- canton
Derived terms
- cantonal
- cantonar
- cantonada
Romanian
Etymology
From French canton.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan?ton/
Noun
canton n (plural cantoane)
- canton
Declension
Derived terms
- cantonal
Further reading
- canton in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Venetian
Noun
canton m (plural cantoni)
- corner
Derived terms
- cantonzsin
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