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/ˈkænjən/ · noun
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river..
After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.
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.
Use canyon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Canyon means A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river..
Common synonyms include gorge, dale, dalles, gulch.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.
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