cañon

See also: canon, cànon, ĉanon, cânon, and cañón

English

Noun

cañon (plural cañons or cañones)

1. Alternative spelling of canyon
   • 1879, Arthur Pendarves Vivian, Wanderings in the western land:

     […] we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river […]

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.

   • 2010, Agnes C Laut, Through Our Unknown Southwest (Illustrated Edition), page 100:

     the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff

Derived terms

• Cañon City

Anagrams

• Ancon, Conan, ancon

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

cañon m (plural cañons)

1. Alternative spelling of canyon

Further reading

• “cañon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.