CLIFF DWELLER


Meaning of CLIFF DWELLER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1881

1. often capitalized C&D

a. : a member of a prehistoric American Indian people of the southwestern United States who built their homes on rock ledges or in the natural recesses of canyon walls and cliffs

b. : a member of any cliff-dwelling people

2. : a resident of a large usually metropolitan apartment building

• cliff dwelling noun

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.