canyon

• cañon

Borrowed from Spanish cañón.

• enPR: kănʹ-yən, IPA^(key): /ˈkænjən/
• Rhymes: -ænjən
• Hyphenation: can‧yon

canyon (plural canyons)

1. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

• gorge, dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley
• See also Thesaurus:valley

• ancony

• cañon

From Spanish cañón.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ɲɔn/

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canyon m (plural canyons)

1. canyon