Usually means: Durable fabric used for painting.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word canvas:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. canvas: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. canvas, the canvas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canvas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. canvas, the canvas: Collins English Dictionary
  5. canvas: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canvas, canvas: Wordnik
  7. canvas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. canvas: Wiktionary
  9. canvas: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. canvas: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. canvas: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. canvas: Dictionary.com
  13. canvas: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. canvas: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Canv.as, Canvas (Belgian TV channel), Canvas (Belgium), Canvas (EP), Canvas (GUI), Canvas (HTML element), Canvas (Instructure), Canvas (album), Canvas (band), Canvas (car company), Canvas (disambiguation), Canvas (rowing), Canvas (song), Canvas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Canvas: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. canvas: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. canvas: Rhymezone
  19. canvas, canvas (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. canvas: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. canvas: Free Dictionary
  22. canvas: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. canvas: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. canvas: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. canvas: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. canvas: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Canvas: art glossary
  6. CANVAS: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Canvas: Corporate Apparel Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canvas: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canvas: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. CANVAS: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. canvas: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. canvas: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Textile (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See canvased as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
noun:  (painting)
noun:  A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
noun:  A painting, or a picture on canvas.
noun:  A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
noun:  (figuratively) A basis for creative work.
noun:  (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
noun:  (nautical) Sails in general.
noun:  A tent.
noun:  A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
noun:  (Nigeria) Athletic shoes.
verb:  (transitive) To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
verb:  Obsolete spelling of canvass. [(transitive, figuratively)]
noun:  Obsolete spelling of canvass. [(countable) A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.]

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