canyon
See also: Canyon
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish cañón. Doublet of cannon.
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: kănʹ-yən, IPA(key): /ˈkænjən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ænjən
- Hyphenation: can‧yon
Noun
editcanyon (plural canyons)
- 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.
Derived terms
edit- box canyon
- Canyon City
- Canyon County
- Canyon Diablo
- canyoned
- canyoneer
- canyoneering
- canyoner
- canyoning
- Canyon Lake
- canyonland
- Canyonlands
- canyonless
- canyonlike
- canyon wren
- concrete canyon
- Copper Canyon
- downcanyon
- Grand Canyon
- Keams Canyon
- Marble Canyon
- Muerto Canyon
- Muerto Canyon hantavirus
- Muerto Canyon virus
- Pasture Canyon
- precanyon
- slot canyon
- upcanyon
- yodel in the canyon
Translations
edita valley cut in rock by a river
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Verb
editcanyon (third-person singular simple present canyons, present participle canyoning, simple past and past participle canyoned)
- (intransitive) Of water, liquid, or another substance, to flow in or into a canyon.
Further reading
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editFrench
editAlternative forms
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editNoun
editcanyon m (plural canyons)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “canyon” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “canyon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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