can‧yon [countable]
SOURCE: Definition from the Longman Dictionary
of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
| can·yon also ca·ñon (k
n.
A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge.
[Spanish cañon, augmentative of caña, tube, cane, from Latin canna, reed; see cane.]
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