canal's

Artificial waterway's characteristic

Canal's is the possessive form of canal, indicating ownership or association.

A canal is an artificial waterway for navigation or irrigation, so the possessive typically modifies features or characteristics: the canal's murky water, the canal's towpath, the canal's lock system.

waterway

lock

Mechanism requiring a key

vessel · boat · passage · channel · crossing · bridge · mooring · dock · watercraft · narrowboat

engineering

construction

Process of building something

sluice · floodgate · embankment · levee · irrigation · diversion · hydraulic · reservoir · infrastructure · maintenance

anatomical

ear

Auditory organ

spinal · root · vertebral · inguinal · cervical · birth · dental · nerve · membrane · passage

urban

Venice

Lagoon city, northeastern Italy

Suzhou · waterfront · district · neighborhood · heritage · tourism · promenade · scenery · reflection · architecture

Opposites
waterway type (artificial vs. natural)

canal'sriver's

Belonging to flowing water

stream's · creek's

terrain feature (water vs. land)

canal'sridge's

Of an elevated line

mountain's · hill's · dam's

artificiality

canal'sriver

Large flowing watercourse

stream · creek · natural waterway · brook · natural channel

Phrases
Family

canal, canals, canalization, canalized

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G