"canyon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkænjən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-canyon.wav [Southern-England] Forms: canyons [plural]
enPR: kănʹ-yən Rhymes: -ænjən Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cañón. Doublet of cannon. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|cañón}} Spanish cañón, {{doublet|en|cannon}} Doublet of cannon Head templates: {{en-noun}} canyon (plural canyons)
  1. A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river. Categories (place): Landforms Synonyms: gorge, dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley, valley, cañon Translations (a valley cut in rock by a river): kloof (Afrikaans), kanion [masculine] (Albanian), gryka [definite, feminine] (Albanian), grykë [feminine, indefinite] (Albanian), φάραγξ (pháranx) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), تَلْعَة (talʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), أُخْدُود (ʔuḵdūd) [masculine] (Arabic), foz [feminine] (Aragonese), ձոր (jor) (Armenian), canga [feminine] (Asturian), каньён (kanʹjón) [masculine] (Belarusian), kanienn (Breton), каньо́н (kanjón) [masculine] (Bulgarian), congost [masculine] (Catalan), 峽谷 (Chinese Mandarin), 峡谷 (xiágǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), kanyon [masculine] (Cornish), kaňon [masculine] (Czech), kløft [common-gender] (Danish), kloof [feminine] (Dutch), kanjono (Esperanto), kanjon (Estonian), kanjoni (Finnish), kuru (Finnish), gorge [feminine] (French), canyon [masculine] (French), canón [masculine] (Galician), კანიონი (ḳanioni) (Georgian), Schlucht [feminine] (German), Felsschlucht [feminine] (German), Klamm [feminine] (German), Schluecht [Alemannic-German, feminine] (German), φαράγγι (farángi) [neuter] (Greek), χαράδρα (charádra) [feminine] (Greek), קַנְיוֹן (kanyón) [masculine] (Hebrew), घाटी (ghāṭī) [feminine] (Hindi), kanyon (Hungarian), szurdok (Hungarian), hegyszoros (Hungarian), szoros (Hungarian), gljúfur [neuter] (Icelandic), ngarai (Indonesian), kanyon (Indonesian), gola [feminine] (Italian), 峡谷 (kyōkoku) (alt: きょうこく) (Japanese), каньон (kanon) (Kazakh), 협곡 (hyeopgok) (alt: 峽谷) (Korean), pyla [feminine] (Latin), kanjons [masculine] (Latvian), kanjonas [masculine] (Lithuanian), кањон (kanjon) [masculine] (Macedonian), ngarai (Malay), kanyon (Malay), kopi (Maori), tsékooh (Navajo), canyon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), congost [masculine] (Occitan), بوغاز (boğaz) (Ottoman Turkish), دره (dere) (Ottoman Turkish), کانیون (kânyon) (Persian), Schlucht [feminine] (Plautdietsch), kanion [masculine] (Polish), przełom [masculine] (Polish), canhão [masculine] (Portuguese), desfiladeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), cânion [masculine] (Portuguese), defileu [neuter] (Romanian), canion [neuter] (Romanian), каньо́н (kanʹón) [masculine] (Russian), ка̀њо̄н [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kànjōn [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kaňon [masculine] (Slovak), kanjon [masculine] (Slovene), cañón [masculine] (Spanish), barranca [feminine] (Spanish), kanjon [common-gender] (Swedish), sabak (Tagalog), hə̏olune (Taos), kayúnena (Taos), หุบเขา (hùp-kǎo) (Thai), โกรกธาร (gròok-taan) (Thai), kanyon (Turkish), каньйо́н (kanʹjón) [masculine] (Ukrainian), kanyon (Uzbek), vực (Vietnamese), hẻm núi (Vietnamese)

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          "word": "Canyon Diablo"
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          "word": "Canyon Lake"
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          "word": "canyon wren"
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          "word": "concrete canyon"
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        {
          "word": "Copper Canyon"
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          "word": "Grand Canyon"
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        {
          "word": "Keams Canyon"
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        {
          "word": "Muerto Canyon hantavirus"
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          "word": "Muerto Canyon virus"
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        {
          "word": "Pasture Canyon"
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        {
          "word": "slot canyon"
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        {
          "word": "ravine"
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        {
          "word": "vale"
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          "code": "af",
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          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kloof"
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          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
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          "roman": "talʕa",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
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          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
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        },
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          "lang": "Aragonese",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "foz"
        },
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          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "jor",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "ձոր"
        },
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          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "canga"
        },
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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "kanʹjón",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanienn"
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
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          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "congost"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "峽谷"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiágǔ",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "峡谷"
        },
        {
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kaňon"
        },
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kloof"
        },
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanjono"
        },
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanjon"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanjoni"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kuru"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gorge"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "canyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "canón"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ḳanioni",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "კანიონი"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Schlucht"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Felsschlucht"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Klamm"
        },
        {
          "code": "gsw",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "Alemannic-German",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schluecht"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "farángi",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "φαράγγι"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "charádra",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "χαράδρα"
        },
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "pháranx",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "φάραγξ"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kanyón",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "קַנְיוֹן"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "ghāṭī",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "घाटी"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "szurdok"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "hegyszoros"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "szoros"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "gljúfur"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "ngarai"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gola"
        },
        {
          "alt": "きょうこく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kyōkoku",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "峡谷"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "kanon",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "каньон"
        },
        {
          "alt": "峽谷",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "hyeopgok",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "협곡"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pyla"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kanjons"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kanjonas"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "kanjon",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "кањон"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "ngarai"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kopi"
        },
        {
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "tsékooh"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "canyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "congost"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "boğaz",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "بوغاز"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "dere",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "دره"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "kânyon",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "کانیون"
        },
        {
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Schlucht"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "kanion"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "przełom"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "canhão"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "desfiladeiro"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cânion"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "defileu"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "canion"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kanʹón",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "каньо́н"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ка̀њо̄н"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kànjōn"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kaňon"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "barranca"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "kanjon"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "sabak"
        },
        {
          "code": "twf",
          "lang": "Taos",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "hə̏olune"
        },
        {
          "code": "twf",
          "lang": "Taos",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kayúnena"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "hùp-kǎo",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "หุบเขา"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "gròok-taan",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "โกรกธาร"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "kanʹjón",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "каньйо́н"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "kanyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "vực"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
          "word": "hẻm núi"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "kănʹ-yən"
    }
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}
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "box canyon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Canyon City"
    },
    {
      "word": "Canyon County"
    },
    {
      "word": "Canyon Diablo"
    },
    {
      "word": "canyoneer"
    },
    {
      "word": "canyoneering"
    },
    {
      "word": "canyoning"
    },
    {
      "word": "Canyon Lake"
    },
    {
      "word": "canyon wren"
    },
    {
      "word": "concrete canyon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Copper Canyon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Grand Canyon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Keams Canyon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Muerto Canyon hantavirus"
    },
    {
      "word": "Muerto Canyon virus"
    },
    {
      "word": "Pasture Canyon"
    },
    {
      "word": "slot canyon"
    }
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      },
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      "name": "bor"
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      },
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      "name": "doublet"
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      "form": "canyons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English doublets",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Spanish",
        "English terms derived from Spanish",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Requests for gender in Breton entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ænjən",
        "Rhymes:English/ænjən/2 syllables",
        "en:Landforms"
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          "ref": "1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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          "valley",
          "valley"
        ]
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          "word": "gorge"
        },
        {
          "word": "dale"
        },
        {
          "word": "dalles"
        },
        {
          "word": "gulch"
        },
        {
          "word": "ravine"
        },
        {
          "word": "vale"
        },
        {
          "word": "valley"
        },
        {
          "word": "valley"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈkænjən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ænjən"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "kănʹ-yən"
    }
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    {
      "word": "cañon"
    }
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kloof"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanion"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gryka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite"
      ],
      "word": "grykë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "talʕa",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "تَلْعَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔuḵdūd",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "أُخْدُود"
    },
    {
      "code": "an",
      "lang": "Aragonese",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "foz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "jor",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "ձոր"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "canga"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kanʹjón",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "каньён"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanienn"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kanjón",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "каньо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "congost"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "峽谷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiágǔ",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "峡谷"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kaňon"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kløft"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kloof"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanjono"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanjoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kuru"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gorge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "canyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "canón"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳanioni",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "კანიონი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Felsschlucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Klamm"
    },
    {
      "code": "gsw",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "Alemannic-German",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schluecht"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "farángi",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "φαράγγι"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "charádra",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "χαράδρα"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "pháranx",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "φάραγξ"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kanyón",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "קַנְיוֹן"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ghāṭī",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "घाटी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "szurdok"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "hegyszoros"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "szoros"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "gljúfur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "ngarai"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gola"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きょうこく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyōkoku",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "峡谷"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "kanon",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "каньон"
    },
    {
      "alt": "峽谷",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hyeopgok",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "협곡"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pyla"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanjons"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanjonas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kanjon",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кањон"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "ngarai"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kopi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "tsékooh"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "canyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "congost"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "boğaz",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "بوغاز"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "dere",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "دره"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kânyon",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "کانیون"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanion"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "przełom"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "canhão"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desfiladeiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cânion"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "defileu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "canion"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kanʹón",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "каньо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ка̀њо̄н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kànjōn"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kaňon"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cañón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barranca"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kanjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "sabak"
    },
    {
      "code": "twf",
      "lang": "Taos",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "hə̏olune"
    },
    {
      "code": "twf",
      "lang": "Taos",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kayúnena"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hùp-kǎo",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "หุบเขา"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "gròok-taan",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "โกรกธาร"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kanʹjón",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "каньйо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "kanyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "vực"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a valley cut in rock by a river",
      "word": "hẻm núi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "canyon"
}

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