grand canyon

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   the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona

   Broadergorge

   Part ofColorado PlateauArizona

Questions about grand canyon

What does grand canyon mean?

grand canyon means "the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona".

Is grand canyon a common word?

grand canyon 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.