Synonyms of canyons

canyons

noun

variants also cañons

plural of canyon

as in ravines

a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage

as the scouts made their way through the canyon, they marveled at the sheer walls of rock on both sides

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ravines
• gorges
• valleys
• crevices
• gaps
• gulches
• abysses
• fissures
• saddles
• trenches
• flumes
• cols
• defiles
• couloirs
• kloofs
• passes
• notches
• gills
• chasms
• linns
• crevasses
• cirques
• clefts
• gulfs
• hollows
• glens
• gullies
• basins
• gulleys
• vales
• dales
• arroyos
• gutters
• dells
• floodplains
• coulees
• kettles
• wadis
• combes
• barrancas
• coombes
• troughs
• washes
• coombs
• cwms
• draws
• barrancos
• nullahs
• shut-ins