canal zone

1. 1.

   a zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal

   SynonymsPanama Canal Zone

   Broaderzone

   Part ofPanama

Questions about canal zone

What does canal zone mean?

canal zone means "a zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal".

What is another word for canal zone?

Close synonyms include Panama Canal Zone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is canal zone a common word?

canal zone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.