Usually means: Waterway constructed for navigation, irrigation.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word canal:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. canal: Merriam-Webster
  2. canal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. canal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. canal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canal, canal: Wordnik
  7. canal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Canal, canal: Wiktionary
  9. canal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. canal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. canal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. canal: Dictionary.com
  13. canal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. canal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Canal (Power Station), Canal (TV channel), Canal (TV provider), Canal (anatomy), Canal (disambiguation), Canal (ward), Canal, The canal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Canal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. canal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. canal: Rhymezone
  19. canal, canal (-aux)(m), canal (-aux) (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. canal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. canal: FreeDictionary.org
  22. canal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. canal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. canal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. canal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Canal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. canal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Canal (anatomy): Medical dictionary
  5. canal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CANAL: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Canal (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. canal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Canal: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See canaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
noun:  (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
noun:  (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
verb:  To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
verb:  To travel along a canal by boat
noun:  A surname.

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