canyon

See also: Canyon

English

Alternative forms

• cañon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cañón.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kănʹ-yən, IPA^(key): /ˈkænjən/
• Rhymes: -ænjən
• Hyphenation: can‧yon

Noun

canyon (plural canyons)

1. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• gorge, dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley
• See also Thesaurus:valley

Derived terms

Terms derived from canyon

• box canyon
• Canyon County
• canyoning
• concrete canyon

• Copper Canyon
• Grand Canyon

Translations

a valley cut in rock by a river

• Albanian: kanion m
• Arabic: تَلْعَة f (talʕa), أُخْدُود m (ʔuḵdūd)
• Aragonese: foz
• Armenian: ձոր (hy) (jor)
• Asturian: canga f
• Belarusian: каньён m (kanʹjón)
• Breton: kanienn
• Bulgarian: каньо́н m (kanjón)
• Catalan: congost (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 峽谷／峡谷 (zh) (xiágǔ), 峡谷 (zh) (xiágǔ)

• Czech: kaňon (cs) m
• Danish: kløft
• Dutch: kloof (nl)
• Esperanto: kanjono
• Estonian: kanjon
• Finnish: kanjoni (fi), kuru (fi)
• French: gorge (fr) f, canyon (fr) m
• Galician: canón (gl) m
• Georgian: კანიონი (ḳanioni)
• German: Schlucht (de) f, Felsschlucht f, Klamm (de) f

  Alemannic German: Schluecht

• Greek: φαράγγι (el) n (farángi), χαράδρα (el) f (charádra)

  Ancient Greek: φάραγξ f (pháranx)

• Hebrew: קַנְיוֹן (he) m (kanyon)
• Hindi: घाटी (hi) f (ghāṭī)
• Hungarian: kanyon (hu)
• Icelandic: gljúfur (is) n
• Indonesian: ngarai (id), kanyon (id)
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• Italian: gola (it) f
• Japanese: 峡谷 (ja) (きょうこく, kyōkoku)
• Kazakh: каньон (kk) (kanon)
• Korean: 협곡 (ko) (hyeopgok)
• Latvian: kanjons m
• Lithuanian: kanjonas m
• Macedonian: кањон m (kanjon)
• Malay: ngarai, kanyon
• Maori: kopi
• Navajo: tsékooh
• Norwegian: canyon (no)
• Persian: کانیون (kânion)
• Polish: kanion (pl) m, przełom (pl) m
• Portuguese: canhão (pt) m, desfiladeiro (pt) m, cânion (pt)
• Romanian: defileu (ro) n, canion (ro) n
• Russian: каньо́н (ru) m (kanʹón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кањон impf

  Roman: kanjon (sh) m

• Slovak: kaňon (sk) m
• Slovene: kanjon (sl) m
• Spanish: cañón (es) m, barranca f
• Swedish: kanjon (sv)
• Tagalog: sabak
• Taos: hə̏olune, kayúnena
• Thai: หุบเขา (hùp-kǎo), โกรกธาร (th) (gròok-taan)
• Turkish: kanyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: каньйо́н m (kanʹjón)
• Vietnamese: vực (vi), hẻm núi

Anagrams

• ancony

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French

Alternative forms

• cañon

Etymology

From Spanish cañón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ɲɔn/

• Audio:

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Noun

canyon m (plural canyons)

1. canyon