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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A high, steep, or overhanging face of rock.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The steep and rugged face of a rocky mass; a steep rock or headland; a precipice.
  2. n. A variant of clef.
  3. n. The strata of rock above or between the strata of coal.
  4. n. Hard chalk.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A vertical (or near vertical) rock face.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A high, steep rock; a precipice.
  2. n. See clef.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a steep high face of rock

Etymologies

  1. Middle English clif, from Old English.

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  • jrome "...commission + substantial equity earn-in after 90-day cliff." Jan 25, 2007

‘cliff’ has been looked up 1389 times, added to 26 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 13.