cañón
cañón is the alternative form of canyon.
Meaning of canyon
Noun
canyon (plural canyons)
- A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
- 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.1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601
Forms of cañón
| plural | cañóns |
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Origin of cañón
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cañón.
Questions about cañón
- What is cañón the alternative form of?
- Cañón is the alternative form of canyon.
Words near cañón in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cañón (page history and authors); canyon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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