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 

• CLIFF DWELLER (noun)

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)