variants
also cañon
as in ravine
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
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Recent Examples of canyon
Besides Zion, there's Arches, famous for its thousands of natural stone arch formations and balanced rocks; Capitol Reef, an underrated destination that's abundant in cliffs, canyons and domes; and Canyonlands, which has a primitive desert landscape anchored by canyons and buttes.
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Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
Baird said the park has set up air quality monitoring equipment on the inner canyon floor and is monitoring it daily.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 24 July 2025
Locations this year include a sacred mountain in Malawi; petroglyphs in South Korea; remains of a port and forts from 17th century Port Royal, Jamaica; a king's palaces in Germany; and a river canyon in Brazil noted for its biodiversity.
—James Doubek, NPR, 18 July 2025
On the peninsula itself, a narrow strip protruding southward with the canyon wall plunging around it, park crews had chipped some wood and burned some piles over the past decade.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 29 July 2025
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Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
Baird said the park has set up air quality monitoring equipment on the inner canyon floor and is monitoring it daily.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 24 July 2025
Locations this year include a sacred mountain in Malawi; petroglyphs in South Korea; remains of a port and forts from 17th century Port Royal, Jamaica; a king's palaces in Germany; and a river canyon in Brazil noted for its biodiversity.
—James Doubek, NPR, 18 July 2025
On the peninsula itself, a narrow strip protruding southward with the canyon wall plunging around it, park crews had chipped some wood and burned some piles over the past decade.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 29 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canyon
Noun
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But the armed groups that succeeded him still control huge swathes of the surrounding hills, where the Garcia ravine that claimed Sara Millerey weaves around dusty apartment blocks.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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Most of Camp 25 happened to be spread along the bottom of a ravine.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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However dogs that gorge on cicadas will find their exoskeletons difficult to digest, resulting in an upset stomach, abdominal pain, vomiting and bloody diarrhea.—
Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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How to Get There: From the Canyon Mouth Day Use Parking Area lot at Little River Falls, take the Little Falls Trail for .75 miles down into the bottom of the gorge.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
20 June 2025
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Getting permission on a field here will be really tough (maybe impossible), however Haugen says that there are good opportunities for freelance hunting in rivers and sloughs throughout the valley, where ducks roost and loaf.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
6 Aug. 2025
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The Taurus-Littrow valley is littered with massive boulders scattered across steep slopes.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Canyon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canyon. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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