cliff
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- noun
- /klɪf/
- Listen, there's a small lake on the side of that cliff there.
- a cliff face
- a cliff edge
- sea cliffs
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Watch on YouTubeAnd that was between the golf course on top of that Cliff and the town.
- And that was between the golf course on top of that Cliff and the town.
- We just walked a little bit further down the cliffs and found these huge geysers.
- I just sat at the edge of that at that Cliff and I wept.
- It was a beautiful ledge, one of the folded cliffs he writes about.
- You, you jump off the Cliff, you're going down, right?
- It was a sheer Cliff down and then into the run.
- Hey Stevo, don't jump off that Cliff, asshole.
Examples
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Here is a sheer vertical Cliff, one to two kilometres high.
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It's being fed by water that gushes down the rocky Cliff on the right.
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So it's like on top of a Cliff like down there is the city.
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And that was between the golf course on top of that Cliff and the town.
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Sleeping on the side of a Cliff was excellent.
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Because at the edge of the Cliff is all possibilities.
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So we made it to the actual Cliff jumping spot.
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Her eyes fall on a cliff jutting out just above the beach.
Academic text (2011) -
The canyon twisted deeper into the mountains, the red cliffs now three hundred feet high.
Fiction book (1990) -
The hikers stood at the edge of the cliff, admiring the stunning view of the ocean below.
Synonyms
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A very steep cliff with a sudden drop
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A steep high face of rock, like a cliff
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A steep rough rock or cliff that sticks out from the land
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A very steep edge of land or rock
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A long steep slope or cliff that separates higher land from lower land
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A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a high flat area
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A steep cliff at the top of a small mountain valley
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Very steep and high, like the edge of a cliff
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A layer of hard rock forming the steep edge of a high flat area or canyon
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A steep, eroded slope of earth beside a river, road, or railway
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A steep rocky bank beside a river or stream
Idioms
- Informal
A late action that deals with a problem only after it has happened
- Informal
To follow other people without thinking even if it leads to harm
Compounds
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Makes people feel excited and nervous because the result is unknown until the last moment
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A small bird that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls
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Long ago Native American people in the American Southwest who lived in homes built on cliffs
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A house built into the side of a cliff on a natural ledge, often of stone and mud
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A low plant with pink flowers that grows on cliffs and rocky coasts and is used as ground cover
A wildflower that lives for several years and has large pink flowers on rocky cliffs
How Steep
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cliff comes from the old English word clif, which meant 'steep slope' or 'bank' and was used for high rocks by the sea. So a cliff today is still a high, very steep face of rock at the edge of the sea or along a river.