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.
Other meanings
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 kind of
- fabric
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "κάνναβις".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “canvas” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.