Usually means: Deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. canyon: Merriam-Webster
  2. canyon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canyon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. canyon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. canyon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canyon, canyon: Wordnik
  7. canyon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Canyon, canyon: Wiktionary
  9. canyon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. canyon (ca=E4on): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. canyon: Dictionary.com
  12. canyon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. canyon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Canyon (Paul Winter album), Canyon (Rauschenberg), Canyon (band), Canyon (country music band), Canyon (disambiguation), Canyon (satellite), Canyon, The Canyon (album), The Canyon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Canyon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. canyon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. canyon: Rhymezone
  18. Canyon (m), canyon, canyon, canyon (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. CANYON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. canyon: FreeDictionary.org
  21. canyon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. canyon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. canyon: Infoplease Dictionary
  24. canyon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. canyon: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. canyon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canyon: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canyon: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. canyon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Canyon: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See canyoning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Canyon)

noun:  A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
verb:  (intransitive) Of water, liquid, or another substance, to flow in or into a canyon.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Algoma district, in north-eastern Ontario, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kenora district, in north-western Ontario, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Contra Costa County and Alameda County, California, United States.
noun:  A ghost town and former gold mining town in El Dorado County, California, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Randall County, Texas, United States.
noun:  A ghost town in Whitman County, Washington, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

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