Precipice vs Canyon - What's the difference?
precipice | canyon |
A very steep cliff.
* 1719-
The brink of a dangerous situation.
(obsolete) A headlong fall or descent.
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
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As nouns the difference between precipice and canyon
is that precipice is precipice, deep and steep escarpment while canyon is canyon.precipice
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* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- I resolved to remove my tent from the place where it stood, which was just under the hanging precipice of the hill; and which, if it should be shaken again, would certainly fall upon my tent...
- ''to stand on a precipice
Synonyms
* cliffcanyon
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*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.
