cliff

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/klɪf/
See all 4 pronunciations
/klɪf/ · [kʰl̥ɪf] · /kləf/ · [kʰl̥əf]

Definition of cliff

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
    “, scar”
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noun

  1. A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
    “, scar”
  2. (figuratively)A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.
  3. (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

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Clifford or Clifton.
  2. A surname.
  3. An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
  4. A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
  5. A hamlet in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2198).
  6. A neighbourhood, The Cliff, in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8201).
  7. 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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