cañon
See also: canon, cànon, ĉanon, cânon, and cañón
English
Noun
cañon (plural cañons or cañones)
- 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 6868219:
- 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
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Derived terms
- Cañon City
Anagrams
- Ancon, Conan, ancon
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
cañon m (plural cañons)
- Alternative spelling of canyon
Further reading
- “cañon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.