Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See cañon.
Wiktionary
- n. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The English form of Spanish word cañon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
Etymologies
- From Spanish cañón (Wiktionary)
- Spanish cañon, augmentative of caña, tube, cane, from Latin canna, reed; see cane. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And up our canyon is a cave that I used to play was Minervy's cave.”
“A concrete canyon is as depressing as a strip mall. efgoldman Says:”
“We tied up our horses directly across a huge canyon from the cliff he was perched on.”
“Â Geologists believe that the canyon is over 17 million years old.”
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“Â The canyon is 277 miles long and ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles.”
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“From between the knolls, a feeder to the main canyon and likewise fringed with redwoods, emerged a smaller canyon.”
“Here the Dyea River became a rushing mountain torrent, plunging out of a dark canyon from the glaciers that fed it far above.”
“Back up the canyon from the lip of the hole all marks were likewise removed.”
“(Hence my disastrously limited posting lately.) The canyon is OK, but it seems to be impressive due only to its size.”
“About half the passengers travelling this line stop overnight somewhere in canyon-country.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘canyon’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Water always flows downhill
The path of least resistance, watercourses, plumbing....
swale, hollow, creek, crick, depression, holler, draw, ditch, corrie, cwm, continental divide, stream and 89 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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Lingu-list
Words from other languages that are used, or would work well, in English. Also known as "loanwords."
hikikomori, ersatz, angst, barbecue, algebra, macho, burlesque, garage, voyeurism, avatar, jungle, looting and 17 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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Man likes these words
danube, schadenfreude, macabre, wanderlust, epiphany, azure, zeitgeist, cerulean, ennui, rhine, abyss, mulch and 130 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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precious
coin, waiflike, zoo, captain, difference, diet, automagical, olive, noanoa, dusk, cookie, monday and 221 more...
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Words from Table Talk's "Five Words" ...
The 5 words contest is a parlor game where people respond to the challenge to come up with a sentence which contains 5 specified words determined by the challenger (and makes a degree of sense). Sa...
mirage, bedecked, breasts, prairie dog, canyon, eau-de-vie, kinkajou, xiphoid, oubliette, quorum, president, atrocities and 62 more...
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Nature Words - Challenge / Mystery
A list of words that invoke challenging or mysterious imagery of nature.
summit, peak, cliffs, depths, cavern, caves, panther, raven, clouds, mist, fog, ravine and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for canyon.
sonofgroucho Isn't this word Grand? Oct 31, 2007