## Meanings
1. A strong, rough cloth used for tents, sails, bags, and shoes.
2. A piece of cloth stretched over a frame, used by artists for painting.
3. A background or setting that gives scope for creative work.

## Examples
- My summer shoes are made of canvas.
- She painted a moonlit harbour on the canvas.
- The author uses small-town life as a canvas for his stories.

## Derived Forms
- canvasback
- canvasboard
- canvasful
- canvasless
- canvaslike
- canvasman
- canvassy
- canvastown
- canvaswork
- noncanvas

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: canevas
- Root: cannabis
- Root: κάνναβις

## Etymology
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.

## AI Etymology
Canvas is from Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp. Important recorded forms include canevas (Middle English), cannabis (Latin), and κάνναβις (Ancient Greek). Current senses include a strong, rough cloth used for tents, sails, bags, and shoes, a piece of cloth stretched over a frame, used by artists for painting, and a background or setting that gives scope for creative work. The wider family includes derived forms such as canvasback, canvasboard, canvasful, canvasless, and canvaslike.

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