Confederation vs Canton - What's the difference?
confederation | canton |
A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
The act of forming an alliance.
A division of a political unit.
* Davies
* Bishop Burnet
# 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
As nouns the difference between confederation and canton
is that confederation is a union or alliance of states or political organizations while canton is a division of a political unit or canton can be (obsolete) a song or canto.As a verb canton is
to delineate as a separate district.confederation
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia confederation) (en noun)Synonyms
* alliance * confederacy * federation * leagueDerived terms
* confederationism * confederationistcanton
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(wikipedia canton)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* kantonNoun
(en noun)- that little canton of land called the "English pale"
- There is another piece of Holbein's, in which, in six several cantons , the several parts of our Saviour's passion are represented.
- The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.
