cañada
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Spanish cañada, from Latin canna (“cane”) + -ada (“-ed”).
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Noun[edit]
cañada (plural cañadas)
- (US, dialect) Synonym of ravine: a gulley, a narrow canyon.
- 1885, W.H.Hudson, The Purple Land:
- In the cañada we stopped to water our horses, and there heard that the enemy were advancing along it at a rapid pace, evidently hoping to cut off our supposed retreat towards the Cuchilla.
Spanish[edit]
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Noun[edit]
cañada f (plural cañadas)
- glen, gully, ravine
- green lane, droveway (road or track used for transhumance)
- Synonym: (Aragon) cabañera
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Further reading[edit]
- “cañada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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