1. A heavy, closely woven fabric
   "The tent was made of sturdy canvas"
    
2. An oil painting on canvas fabric
   "The artist's latest canvas depicted a stormy seascape"
    
3. A tent made of canvas fabric
   "They set up their canvas tent in the clearing, ready for a night of camping";
   - canvas tent
    
4. A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
   "They unfurled the canvas to catch the breeze";
   - sail, sheet
    
5. The mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
   "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas"
    
6. The setting for a narrative, fictional or dramatic account
   "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound"

1. Cover with canvas
   "The crew canvased the boat's deck"

Sounds like: canvass

Derived forms: canvases, canvased, canvasing

Type of: background, cloth, collapsible shelter, cover, fabric, gym mat, mat, material, oil painting, piece of cloth, piece of material, scope, setting, tent, textile

Part of: ring, sailing ship, sailing vessel

Encyclopedia: Canvas, West Virginia