canyon

See also: Canyon

English

Motlatse canyon in South Africa (1)

Alternative forms

• cañon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cañón. Doublet of cannon.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kănʹ-yən, IPA^(key): /ˈkænjən/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ænjən
• Hyphenation: can‧yon

Noun

canyon (plural canyons)

1. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
   • 1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:

     After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.

   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

   Synonyms: gorge, dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley; see also Thesaurus:valley

Derived terms

• box canyon
• Canyon County
• canyoneer
• canyoneering
• canyoning
• concrete canyon
• Copper Canyon
• Grand Canyon

 

Translations

a valley cut in rock by a river

• Albanian: kanion m, gryka f (definite), grykë (sq) f (indefinite)
• Arabic: تَلْعَة‎ f (talʿa), أُخْدُود‎ m (ʾuḵdūd)
• Aragonese: foz f
• Armenian: ձոր (hy) (jor)
• Asturian: canga f
• Belarusian: каньён m (kanʹjón)
• Breton: kanienn ?
• Bulgarian: каньо́н m (kanjón)
• Catalan: congost (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 峽谷 (zh), 峡谷 (zh) (xiágǔ)

• Cornish: kanyon m
• Czech: kaňon (cs) m
• Danish: kløft c
• Dutch: kloof (nl) f
• Esperanto: kanjono
• Estonian: kanjon
• Finnish: kanjoni (fi), kuru (fi)
• French: gorge (fr) f, canyon (fr) m
• Galician: canón (gl) m
• Georgian: კანიონი (ḳanioni)
• German: Schlucht (de) f, Felsschlucht f, Klamm (de) f

  Alemannic German: Schluecht f

• Greek: φαράγγι (el) n (farángi), χαράδρα (el) f (charádra)

  Ancient: φάραγξ f (pháranx)

• Hebrew: קַנְיוֹן‎ (he) m (kanyon)
• Hindi: घाटी (hi) f (ghāṭī)
• Hungarian: kanyon (hu), szurdok (hu), hegyszoros (hu), szoros (hu)
• Icelandic: gljúfur (is) n
• Indonesian: ngarai (id), kanyon (id)
• Italian: gola (it) f

• Japanese: 峡谷 (ja) (きょうこく, kyōkoku)
• Kazakh: каньон (kk) (kanʹon)
• Korean: 협곡 (ko) (hyeopgok)
• Latvian: kanjons m
• Lithuanian: kanjonas m
• Macedonian: кањон m (kanjon)
• Malay: ngarai, kanyon
• Maori: kopi
• Navajo: tsékooh
• Norwegian: canyon (no) m
• Occitan: congost m
• Persian: کانیون‎ (kânion)
• Plautdietsch: Schlucht f
• Polish: kanion (pl) m, przełom (pl) m
• Portuguese: canhão (pt) m, desfiladeiro (pt) m, cânion (pt) ?
• Romanian: defileu (ro) n, canion (ro) n
• Russian: каньо́н (ru) m (kanʹón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀њо̄н m

  Roman: kànjōn (sh) m

• Slovak: kaňon (sk) m
• Slovene: kanjon (sl) m
• Spanish: cañón (es) m, barranca f
• Swedish: kanjon (sv) c
• Tagalog: sabak
• Taos: hə̏olune, kayúnena
• Thai: หุบเขา (hùp-kǎo), โกรกธาร (th)
• Turkish: kanyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: каньйо́н m (kanʹjón)
• Vietnamese: vực (vi), hẻm núi

Anagrams

• ancony

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French

Alternative forms

• cañon

Etymology

From Spanish cañón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ɲɔn/

• Audio

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Noun

canyon m (plural canyons)

1. canyon

Further reading

• “canyon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.