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cantonal

cantonal adjective: of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.

Adjective

cantonal (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
    • The cantonal governments are all republics, more or less democratic.1852, Alexander Frederic Foster, General treatise on geography

Origin of cantonal

From canton + -al.

Words formed from cantonal

Questions about cantonal

What does cantonal mean?
Cantonal means of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
What part of speech is cantonal?
Cantonal is an adjective.

Words near cantonal in the dictionary

  1. Canton Jargon
  2. Canton lemon
  3. Canton matting
  4. canton of Zurich
  5. Canton's phosphorus
  6. cantonal
  7. cantonalism
  8. cantonalist
  9. cantonalists
  10. Cantone
  11. cantoned

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