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Cliff Dwelling

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Noun

1. cliff dwelling

a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff

Example Sentences:
'the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cliff Dwelling

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noun
anthropology
a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves

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Cliff Dwelling

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1. 
a member of an ancient North American Indian people of the Southwest that lived in hollows or caves in cliffs: they were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians
2.  Informal
a person who lives in a large urban apartment house

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cliff Dwelling

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n.
1. A member of certain Ancestral Puebloan groups of the southwest United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on sheltered ledges in the sides of cliffs.
2. Informal A person who lives in a large apartment house, especially in a city.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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