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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock, such as a crag or the face of a cliff.
  2. n. The brink of a dangerous or disastrous situation: on the precipice of defeat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A headlong fall; an abrupt descent.
  2. n. A bank or cliff extremely steep, or even perpendicular or overhanging; a headlong declivity.
  3. n. The brink of a steep declivity; hence, a dangerous place; a critical position; a perilous location.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A very steep cliff.
  2. n. The brink of a dangerous situation.
  3. n. obsolete A headlong fall or descent.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A sudden or headlong fall.
  2. n. A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a very steep cliff

Etymologies

  1. First attested in 1598, from Latin *praecipitium ("a steep place"), from praeceps ("steep"), from prae + caput ("head"). First meaning of the noun is recorded from 1632. (Wiktionary)
  2. French précipice, from Latin praecipitium, from praeceps, praecipit-, headlong; see precipitate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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