cañon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "canon"

English

Noun

cañon (plural cañons or cañones)

1. Alternative spelling of canyon.
   • 1879, Arthur Pendarves Vivian, Wanderings in the western land:

     […] we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river […]

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.

   • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 122:

     Steadily it ascended toward the mountains, into which they filed through a narrow cañon close to noon.

   • 1918, John Muir, “A Geologist's Winter Walk”, in Steep Trails‎^[1]:

     The morning after this decision, I started up the cañon of Tenaya, caring little about the quantity of bread I carried; for, I thought, a fast and a storm and a difficult cañon were just the medicine I needed.

   • 2010, Agnes C Laut, Through Our Unknown Southwest (Illustrated Edition), page 100:

     the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff

Derived terms

• Cañon City

Anagrams

• Ancon, Conan, ancon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ɲɔn/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

cañon m (plural cañons)

1. alternative spelling of canyon

Further reading

• “cañon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012