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urban canyon

urban canyon noun: a street with high-rise buildings on both sides giving pedestrians the feeling of being in a gorge (how tall the buildings need to be for this depends on the breadth of the street).

Noun

urban canyon (plural urban canyons)

  1. a street with high-rise buildings on both sides giving pedestrians the feeling of being in a gorge (how tall the buildings need to be for this depends on the breadth of the street)

Forms of urban canyon

pluralurban canyons

Questions about urban canyon

What does urban canyon mean?
Urban canyon means a street with high-rise buildings on both sides giving pedestrians the feeling of being in a gorge (how tall the buildings need to be for this depends on the breadth of the street).
What part of speech is urban canyon?
Urban canyon is a noun.
What is the plural of urban canyon?
The plural of urban canyon is urban canyons.

Words near urban canyon in the dictionary

  1. urban blight
  2. urban blights
  3. urban boarding
  4. urban boulevard
  5. urban boulevards
  6. urban canyon
  7. urban contemporary
  8. Urban Cowboy
  9. Urban Cowboys
  10. urban crawl
  11. urban death

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