Cliff vs Canyon - What's the difference?
cliff | canyon |
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
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As nouns the difference between cliff and canyon
is that cliff is a vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face while canyon is a valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.As a proper noun Cliff
is a diminutive of the male given name Clifford.cliff
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(wikipedia cliff)Etymology 1
(etyl) clif .Synonyms
* precipiceDerived terms
* cliff swallow * cliff-face * cliffed * cliffhanger * cliffing * cliffyEtymology 2
canyon
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- 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.