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| Main Entry: |
cliff
 [klif] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overhang on hill or mountain |
| Synonyms: | bluff, crag, escarpment, face, precipice, rock face, rocky height, scar, scarp, steep rock, wall |
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| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precipice |
| Synonyms: | bank, cliff, crag, escarpment, headland, hill, mountain, peak, promontory, ridge, rock |
| Main Entry: | hill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising of earth's surface; pile |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, esker, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, highland, hillock, hillside, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, protuberance, range, ridge, rise, rising ground, shock, slope, stack, summit, talus, tor, upland |
| Antonyms: | canyon, ditch, gulley |
Example Sentences
- If the crime leads to prison, future employment prospects fall off a cliff.
- It emerged from foliage on the side of an impossibly steep cliff and proceeded to clamber up the slope without much difficulty.
- The economies of the rich world seem to have fallen off a cliff.
| Main Entry: | hillock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hill |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, drift, dune, elevation, esker, headland, heap, highland, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, ridge, rise, slope, summit |
| Main Entry: | knoll |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hill |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, drift, dune, elevation, esker, headland, heap, highland, hillock, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, ridge, rise, slope, summit |
| Main Entry: | mountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large hill |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alp, bank, bluff, butte, cliff, crag, dome, drift, elevation, eminence, glob, heap, height, hump, mass, mesa, mound, mount, palisade, peak, pike, pile, precipice, pyramid, range, ridge, shock, sierra, stack, ton, tor, volcano |
| Antonyms: | crevasse, valley |
| Main Entry: | precipice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | face or brink of a rock, mountain |
| Synonyms: | bluff, cliff, crag, height, sheer drop, steep |
| Main Entry: | prominence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that sticks out |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, cliff, conspicuity, conspicuousness, crag, crest, elevation, eminence, headland, height, high point, jutting, markedness, mound, pinnacle, projection, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, rise, spur, swelling, tor |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | escarpment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slope |
| Synonyms: | cliff, hill, ledge, ridge |
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