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CLIFF DWELLER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cliff dweller mean?
• CLIFF DWELLER (noun)
The noun CLIFF DWELLER has 1 sense:
1. a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves
Familiarity information: CLIFF DWELLER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("cliff dweller" is a kind of...):
Anasazi (a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings)
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