can‧vas /ˈkænvəs/ noun
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old North French; Origin: canevas, from Latin cannabis 'hemp']

1. [uncountable] strong cloth used to make bags, tents, shoes etc:
a canvas bag

2.
[countable] a painting done with oil paints, or the piece of cloth it is painted on:
The gallery has a canvas by Paul Cézanne.
‘Four Women on a Bench’, oil on canvas, 1991

3. a broader/wider/larger canvas the whole of a situation, and not just a part of it:
These questions must be considered on a broader canvas.

4. under canvas British English in a tent

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