Entry Word: canyon

Function: noun

Meaning:

also cañon

a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage <as the scouts made their way through the canyon, they marveled at the sheer walls of rock on both sides>

Synonyms defile, flume, gap, gorge, gulch, gulf, notch, pass, ravine

Related Words abyss, chasm, cirque, cleft, crevasse, crevice, fissure; dale, glen, hollow, vale, valley; basin, floodplain, plain; arroyo, coulee, gully, gutter, wash [Western]