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canyonland

canyonland noun: a land full of canyons.

Noun

canyonland (countable and uncountable, plural canyonlands)

  1. A land full of canyons.
    • But I soon realized that whoever described the city as a concrete canyonland had his topography all wrong.2009 March 8, Christopher Solomon, “Mountain Man”, in New York Times
    • The Kotsoteka Comanche lived mostly along the Canadian River, where the Llano ended and the dry plains turned into grassy canyonlands.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 94

Forms of canyonland

pluralcanyonlands

Origin of canyonland

From canyon + land.

Questions about canyonland

What does canyonland mean?
Canyonland means a land full of canyons.
What part of speech is canyonland?
Canyonland is a noun.
What is the plural of canyonland?
The plural of canyonland is canyonlands.

Words near canyonland in the dictionary

  1. canyoneering
  2. canyoneers
  3. canyoner
  4. canyoners
  5. canyoning
  6. canyonland
  7. canyonlands
  8. Canyonleigh
  9. canyonless
  10. canyonlike
  11. canyons

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