Combe vs Canyon - What's the difference?
combe | canyon | Related terms |
A valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river.
* 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
* Southey
A cirque.
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
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Combe is a related term of canyon.
As a verb combe
is .As a noun canyon is
canyon.combe
English
(wikipedia combe)Alternative forms
* comb * coomb * coombeNoun
(en noun)- its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe .
- A gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
Usage notes
* Used, especially in South West England, in many placenames ----canyon
English
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.