Definition of canvas

"canvas" in the noun sense

1. canvas, canvass

a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)

2. canvas, canvass

an oil painting on canvas fabric

3. canvas, canvass

the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account

"the crowded canvas of history"

"the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound"

4. canvas tent, canvas, canvass

a tent made of canvas fabric

5. sail, canvas, canvass, sheet

a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

6. canvas, canvass

the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete

"the boxer picked himself up off the canvas"

"canvas" in the verb sense

1. canvas

cover with canvas

"She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks"

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Quotations for canvas

No canvas absorbs color like memory. [ Willmott ]

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination. [ Voltaire ]

Nobody but you owes you anything. Accept it and move on. The canvas of your life is yours. It is what you make of it. Paint it well.

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn-door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]

canvas in Scrabble®

The word canvas is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters canvas:

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canvas in Words With Friends™

The word canvas is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters canvas:

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Words within the letters of canvas

2 letter words in canvas (3 words)

3 letter words in canvas (4 words)

4 letter words in canvas (3 words)

6 letter words in canvas (1 word)

canvas + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence canvas

Words with canvas in them (2 words)

Words that end with canvas (1 word)

Word Growth involving canvas

Shorter words in canvas

as

an can

Longer words containing canvas

canvasback canvasbacks

canvased

canvases

canvaslike

canvass canvassed uncanvassed

canvass canvasser canvassers

canvass canvasses

canvass canvassing