Synonyms of canals

canals

noun

plural of canal

as in aqueducts

an open man-made passageway for water

the Panama Canal opened a much easier and shorter passageway from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aqueducts
• waterways
• watercourses
• rivers
• conduits
• flumes
• raceways
• channels
• racecourses
• gutters
• courses
• sluices
• spillways
• sluiceways
• streams
• floodways
• torrents
• rivulets
• millraces
• troughs
• millstreams
• swashes
• tideways

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of canals

Sites is planned 17 miles west of the river itself, and will draw water through a system of canals and pipes to fill the reservoir. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

To prepare, cities have deployed an arsenal of weapons against the floods, including sandbags, water pumps, sand berms and drainage canals. — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

The canals and the first phase of Panther Island development can proceed independently of the bypass channel, according to that TRWD document. — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026

The Sears family, like other white settlers, tended to their crops with water sourced from an intricate network of canals, the first of which was built by the Swilling Irrigation and Canal Company in 1867. — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department Dive Unit also assisted in the search, deploying an underwater remote sonar drone to scan the canals. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026

Near hole 12 is a South Florida Water Management District flood control barrier, one of several structures installed in the mouths of canals in Miami-Dade and Broward to let water flow out to Biscayne Bay. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

In antiquity, Rome’s aqueducts and China’s canals and flood-control works were the pipelines of centuries of hegemony. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

The waterway expands China’s extensive network of canals, some of them 1,000 years old. — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2026