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noun(can-yon)a deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it
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noun(can-yon)something resembling a canyon
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noun(can-yon)a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council
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noun(can-yon)a provision of canon law
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noun(can-yon)the most solemn and unvarying part of the Mass including the consecration of the bread and wine
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noun(can-yon)a clergyman belonging to the chapter or the staff of a cathedral or collegiate church
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noun(can-yon)canon regular
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noun(can-yon)a deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it
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noun(can-yon)something resembling a canyon
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geographical name(can-yon)reservation in northeastern Arizona containing cliff-dweller ruins
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geographical name(can-yon)canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada south of Hoover Dam
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geographical name(can-yon)canyon of the Gunnison River in southwest central Colorado that is partly in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
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geographical name(can-yon)canyon in southern Utah containing curiously eroded pinnacles
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geographical name(can-yon)region of northwestern Mexico in the state of Chihuahua comprising numerous deep canyons in the Sierra Madre Occidental
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geographical name(can-yon)dam on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon in northern Arizona that was completed in 1966 and forms an artificial lake called Lake Powell which is chiefly in southeastern Utah
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geographical name(can-yon)gorge of the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona extending from the mouth of the Little Colorado west to the Grand Wash Cliffs; over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) deep; area largely within Grand Canyon National Park