If you shout from the top of a cliff, you can hear the echo of your voice.
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Cliff
//klɪf//
Synonyms for "cliff" (18 found)
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1 entriesat location
1 entriescauses desire
1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
66 entriesShowing 16 of 66 words.
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1 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
177 translations across 109 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- shkëmb noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κρημνός noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Arabic
1 entries- جُرْف noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Aragonese
1 entries- penya noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Armenian
1 entries- ժայռ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- sıldırım noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡая noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Basque
1 entries- labar noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Belarusian
4 entries- кліф noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- скала́ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- уцёс noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- ўцёс noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Bouyei
1 entries- baangxbyal noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Breton
1 entries- tornaod noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Bulgarian
1 entries- стръмна скала noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Burmese
1 entries- နတ်သမီးကမ်းပါး noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Catalan
1 entries- penya-segat noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Cebuano
1 entries- pangpang noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Central Atlas Tamazight
1 entries- ⴰⵖⵓⵍⵉⴷ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 懸崖 /悬崖 noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 峭壁 noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- 懸崖 /悬崖 noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Czech
1 entries- útes noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Danish
1 entries- klint noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Dutch
2 entries- klif noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- klip noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Eastern Bontoc
3 entries- chopras noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- oto noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- teng-el noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Esperanto
2 entries- klifo noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- krutaĵo noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Estonian
1 entries- kalju noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Faroese
3 entries- berg noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- hamar noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- klettur noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Finnish
2 entries- jyrkänne noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- kalliojyrkänne noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
French
1 entries- falaise noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Galician
4 entries- acantilado noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- barronqueira noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- cantil noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- esfragadoiro noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Georgian
4 entries- ალპინისტის მთა noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- კლდე noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- კლიფი noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- ფრიალო კლდე noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
German
2 entries- Felsen noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- Klippe noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍉 noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Greek
4 entries- βουνοπλαγιά noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- γκρεμός noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- κλιτύς noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- πρανές noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Gujarati
2 entries- કરાડ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- ભેખડ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pali noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Hebrew
1 entries- צוק noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Hindi
1 entries- चट्टान noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Hungarian
1 entries- szirt noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Icelandic
4 entries- berg noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- bjarg noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- hamar noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- klettur noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Ido
1 entries- klifo noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Ilocano
1 entries- dirraas noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Indonesian
1 entries- tebing noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Interlingua
1 entries- precipitio noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Irish
1 entries- aill noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Italian
4 entries- costone noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- crinale noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- dirupo noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- falesia noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Japanese
1 entries- 崖 noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕಮರಿ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Kazakh
3 entries- жар noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- жартас noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- құз noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Khmer
1 entries- ច្រាំងភ្នំ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Konkani
1 entries- दोंगर noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Korean
2 entries- 벼랑 noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- 절벽 noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Kumyk
2 entries- къая noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- таш noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- таш noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Lao
1 entries- ຜາ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Latgalian
1 entries- radze noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Latin
1 entries- rūpēs noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Latvian
1 entries- klints noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Lithuanian
1 entries- klifas noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- skalina noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- skała noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Lubuagan Kalinga
2 entries- angit noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- chigchig noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Macedonian
1 entries- спила noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Malagasy
1 entries- kôrnisy noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Malay
1 entries- cenuram noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Malayalam
1 entries- പാറ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Manx
1 entries- eaynin noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Middle English
3 entries- clough noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- clyf noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- hough noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Mongolian
1 entries- хад цохио noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Nepali
1 entries- भीर noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Norman
2 entries- falaise noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- falaîthe noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
North Frisian
1 entries- klap noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- klippe noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- hamar noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- klippe noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Occitan
1 entries- bauç noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Old English
1 entries- clif noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Old Norse
3 entries- berg noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- hamarr noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- klettr noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قیا noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- یار noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Persian
1 entries- پرتگاه noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Polish
1 entries- klif noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Portuguese
2 entries- falésia noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- penhasco noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Romanian
3 entries- faleză noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- pantă noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- stâncă noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Russian
3 entries- клиф noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- скала́ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- утёс noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Samoan
1 entries- tofo noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Sanskrit
1 entries- भृगुः noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Scots
2 entries- cleuch noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- craig noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- creag noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- hrid noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- litica noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- литица noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- хрид noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Slovak
1 entries- útes noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Slovene
1 entries- klif noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Southern Altai
2 entries- кайа noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- таш noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Southern Kalinga
1 entries- ipngas noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Spanish
4 entries- acantilado noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- despeñadero noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- precipicio noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- risco noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Swedish
1 entries- klippa noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Tagalog
4 entries- dahilig noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- dalisdis noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- duminding noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- talampas noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Tajik
1 entries- партгоҳ noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Tamil
1 entries- செங்குத்துப் பாறை noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Tarifit
1 entries- addar noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Thai
1 entries- ผา noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Turkish
3 entries- falez noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- uçurum noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- yar noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Turkmen
1 entries- uçut noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Tuwali Ifugao
1 entries- dopla noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Ukrainian
2 entries- кліф noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- ске́ля noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Uyghur
1 entries- يار noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vách đá noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Walloon
1 entries- falijhe noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Welsh
2 entries- clogwyn noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
- dibyn noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
West-Frisian
1 entries- klippe noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
White Hmong
1 entries- tsua noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Yámana
1 entries- arakur noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Zazaki
1 entries- hir (diq) noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Zhuang
1 entries- bya noun (a (near) vertical rock face)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
There is a narrow path running along the cliff.
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Down went the bus over the cliff.
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The man and his horse that fell off the cliff were soon rescued.
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