Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
cañon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The English form of the Spanish word
cañon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
valley , especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And up our canyon is a cave that I used to play was Minervy's cave.
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 Geologists believe that the canyon is over 17 million years old.
Five Places To Look Up In The U.S. On Google Earth | myFiveBest 2010
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Back up the canyon from the lip of the hole all marks were likewise removed.
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(Hence my disastrously limited posting lately.) The canyon is OK, but it seems to be impressive due only to its size.
Enraged in Arizona 2009
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Here the Dyea River became a rushing mountain torrent, plunging out of a dark canyon from the glaciers that fed it far above.
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We tied up our horses directly across a huge canyon from the cliff he was perched on.
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A concrete canyon is as depressing as a strip mall. efgoldman Says:
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 The canyon is 277 miles long and ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles.
Five Places To Look Up In The U.S. On Google Earth | myFiveBest 2010
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We tied up our horses directly across a huge canyon from the cliff he was perched on.
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From between the knolls, a feeder to the main canyon and likewise fringed with redwoods, emerged a smaller canyon.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
sonofgroucho commented on the word canyon
Isn't this word Grand?
October 31, 2007