canal
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
Noun 3 meanings
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
Verb 2 meanings
To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
To travel along a canal by boat
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, canal, narrow passage”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of channel. See also cane and -al.
CANAL at a glance
CANAL has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + N 1 + A 1 + L 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,835 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with canal
All rhymes- NATIONAL8
- INTERNATIONAL13
- FINAL8
- PERSONAL10
- ORIGINAL9
- PROFESSIONAL17
- ADDITIONAL12
- TRADITIONAL12
- JOURNAL14
- CRIMINAL12
- REGIONAL9
- EMOTIONAL11
One letter away
- CABAL9
- BANAL7
- FANAL8
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