Canton vs Santon - What's the difference?

canton | santon |

As a proper noun canton

is guangzhou (a city of china).

As a noun santon is

a muslim holy man.

canton

English

(wikipedia canton)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* kanton

Noun

(en noun)

A division of a political unit.

* Davies

that little canton of land called the "English pale"

* Bishop Burnet

There is another piece of Holbein's, in which, in six several cantons , the several parts of our Saviour's passion are represented.

# One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.

# A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.

# A division of Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.

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).

(heraldiccharge) 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.

* Evelyn

The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.

Verb

(en verb)

To delineate as a separate district.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A song or canto.

* Shakespeare

Write loyal cantons of contemned love.

Anagrams

* ----

santon

English

Noun

(en noun)

A Muslim holy man.

* 1818 , John Keats, "To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.":

Part of the building was a chosen see, / Built by a banished santon of Chaldee [...].

In France (originally Provence), a small, hand-painted, terracotta figurine of a nativity character.

* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 49:

Also we had brought a huge family of little santons of painted terracotta for the crêche.