canvas
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
Noun 4 meanings
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
“She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas.”
A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
A basis for creative work.
“The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies”
Verb 1 meaning
To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
Etymology
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).
CANVAS at a glance
CANVAS has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + N 1 + V 4 + A 1 + S 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,417 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with canvas
All rhymes- DIVAS9
- RIVAS8
- LAVAS8
- DEVAS9
- NOVAS8
- BODHISATTVAS21
- SUPERNOVAS15
- BALACLAVAS17
- GUAVAS10
- VIVAS11
- AVAS7
- SILVAS9
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- CANNAS8
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