Definitions For Canvass

noun

  • A heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
  • The mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
  • An oil painting on canvas fabric
  • A tent made of canvas fabric
  • A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
  • An inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
  • The setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account

verb

  • Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
  • Get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
  • Solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign
  • To ask (the people in an area) what they think about a candidate, project, idea, etc.
  • To talk to the people in an area in order to get them to support a candidate, project, idea, etc.
  • To look at or consider (something) carefully

Is Canvass a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
15

The word Canvass is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Canvass in a Sentence

  • A team of volunteers is canvassing the city for the Republican Party.
  • We go to every house to canvass voters.
  • She is canvassing for one of the presidential candidates this year.

Synonyms for Canvass

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