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Cliff vs Canyon - What's the difference?

cliff | canyon |

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

English

(wikipedia cliff)

Etymology 1

(etyl) clif .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
  • Synonyms
    * precipice
    Derived terms
    * cliff swallow * cliff-face * cliffed * cliffhanger * cliffing * cliffy

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music)
  • (Webster 1913)

    canyon

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
  • * '>citation
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley * See also

    Derived terms

    * box canyon * concrete canyon * Copper Canyon * Grand Canyon

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