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canyons

canyons is the plural of canyon.

canyons is the third-person singular simple present indicative of canyon.

Meaning of canyon

Noun

canyon (plural canyons)

  1. 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

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Phrases with canyons

Questions about canyons

What is canyons the plural of?
Canyons is the plural of canyon.

Words near canyons in the dictionary

  1. canyonland
  2. canyonlands
  3. Canyonleigh
  4. canyonless
  5. canyonlike
  6. canyons
  7. canyonside
  8. canyonsides
  9. Canyonville
  10. Canyopay
  11. canzon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canyons (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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