cliff
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- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
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- 5
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Definition of cliff
10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
“, scar”
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noun
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A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
“, scar”
- (figuratively)A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.
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(alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of clef.
“Suppose a Person hath learnt to sing in the Treble Cliff only, and would sing Notes prick'd in the Tenor Cliff on the middle tine with F# […]”
name
- A diminutive of the male given name Clifford or Clifton.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
- A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
- A hamlet in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2198).
- A neighbourhood, The Cliff, in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8201).
- A small settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland, appearing on OS maps as Cliobh (OS grid ref NB0835).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English clyf, from Old English clif, from Proto-West Germanic *klib, from Proto-Germanic *klibą.
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