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Meaning of cliffy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Abounding in cliffs.
  2. Characteristic of a cliff.

Examples

“1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 176. There is naked Nature,—inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.”
“Where did they all live? I wondered. My curiosity was soon destined to be gratified. Turning to the left the string of litters followed the cliffy sides of the crater for a distance of about half a mile, or perhaps a little less, and then halted.”
“HAG [...] 1. A rock or cliff; an abrupt, cliffy prominence.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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