Noun: canyon
| Singular | canyon |
| Plural | canyons |
Sample Sentences
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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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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. [2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like canyon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cañón. Doublet of cannon. See: Spanish Nouns '
cañón'.
Verbs referencing "canyon"
Finnish Nouns
kanjoni, Catalan Nouns
canyó.