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cliff (noun)

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  • cliff — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ high, towering ▪ low ▪ dramatic, precipitous, sheer, steep, vertical ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • cliff — ► NOUN ▪ a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea. DERIVATIVES cliffy adjective. ORIGIN Old English …   English terms dictionary

  • cliff dweller — noun a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves • Hypernyms: ↑Anasazi * * * noun 1. often capitalized C&D a. : one of the people of the Anasazi culture …   Useful english dictionary

  • cliff dwelling — noun a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States • Hypernyms: ↑dwelling, ↑home, ↑domicile, ↑abode, ↑habitation, ↑dwelling house * * * noun …   Useful english dictionary

  • cliff — [ klıf ] noun count ** the steep side of an area of high land: They pushed the car over the edge of the cliff. a. only before noun relating to a cliff: the cliff edge/face/top …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • cliff dweller — noun Date: 1881 1. often capitalized C&D a. a member of a prehistoric American Indian people of the southwestern United States who built their homes on rock ledges or in the natural recesses of canyon walls and cliffs b. a member of any cliff… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • cliff swallow — noun North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls • Syn: ↑Hirundo pyrrhonota • Hypernyms: ↑swallow • Member Holonyms: ↑Hirundo, ↑genus Hirundo * * * noun …   Useful english dictionary

  • cliff-face — cliffˈ face noun The sheer or steep front of a cliff • • • Main Entry: ↑cliff …   Useful english dictionary

  • cliff´like´ — cliff «klihf», noun. a very steep slope of rock or clay: »The cliff overlooks the river fall below. SYNONYM(S): precipice, bluff. ╂[Old English clif. Probably related to cleave1.] –cliff´like´, adjective …   Useful english dictionary

  • cliff brake — noun any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions • Syn: ↑cliff brake, ↑rock brake • Hypernyms: ↑fern • Hyponyms: ↑coffee fern, ↑Pellaea andromedifolia, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • cliff-hanger — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : an adventure serial or melodrama; especially : one presented in installments each of which ends in suspense cliff hangers on radio 2. : a contest whose outcome is in doubt up to the very end the election was a cliff… …   Useful english dictionary

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