Usually means: Steep rock face, high elevation.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cliff: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cliff, cliff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cliff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cliff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cliff: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cliff, cliff: Wordnik
  7. cliff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cliff, cliff: Wiktionary
  9. cliff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cliff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cliff: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cliff, cliff: Dictionary.com
  13. cliff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cliff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cliff (album), Cliff (disambiguation), Cliff (given name), Cliff (surname), Cliff, The Cliff (EP), The Cliff (training ground): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cliff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cliff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cliff: Rhymezone
  19. cliff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cliff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cliff: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cliff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cliff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cliff: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. cliff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cliff: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. CLIFF: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cliff: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cliffing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
noun:  (figurative) A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Clifford or Clifton.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
noun:  A hamlet in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2198).
noun:  A neighbourhood, The Cliff, in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8201).
noun:  A small settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland, appearing on OS maps as Cliobh (OS grid ref NB0835).
noun:  (music) Obsolete form of clef. [(music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]]

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