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1 English
- 1.1 Noun
  * 1.1.1 Derived terms
- 1.2 Anagrams
2 French

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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 […]
- 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 122:
  Steadily it ascended toward the mountains, into which they filed through a narrow cañon close to noon.
- 1918, John Muir, “A Geologist's Winter Walk”, in Steep Trails‎[1]:
  The morning after this decision, I started up the cañon of Tenaya, caring little about the quantity of bread I carried; for, I thought, a fast and a storm and a difficult cañon were just the medicine I needed.
- 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

Cañon City
Ancon, Conan, ancon
IPA(key): /ka.ɲɔn/

cañon m (plural cañons)

alternative spelling of canyon

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