Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

box canyon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables: box -canyon
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.

Example Sentences

"The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap."
"For days he camped on Wildfire's trail, always relentlessly driving him, always watching for the trap he hoped to find. . . . Sooner or later Wildfire would go down into a high-walled wash, from which there would be no outlet; or he would wander into a box-canyon."
"Highway 145 dead-ends on the east end of Telluride, where a box canyon affords no further passage."

Inflected Forms

box canyons (plural) box-canyon (alternative)

Questions

What does box canyon mean?: A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.

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