canyon

plural canyons · alternative cañon · alternative cañón

1. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

   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

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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

   Synonyms: gorge, dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley, valley

present singular third person canyons · participle present canyoning · participle past canyoned · past canyoned · alternative cañon · alternative cañón

1. intransitiveOf water, liquid, or another substance, to flow in or into a canyon.

1. An unincorporated community in Algoma district, in north-eastern Ontario, Canada.
2. An unincorporated community in Kenora district, in north-western Ontario, Canada.
3. An unincorporated community in Contra Costa County and Alameda County, California, United States.
4. A ghost town and former gold mining town in El Dorado County, California, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
6. A city, the county seat of Randall County, Texas, United States.
7. A ghost town in Whitman County, Washington, United States.
8. An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
9. A surname.