HyperDic: cliff_dweller

English > 1 sense of the expression cliff dweller:
NOUNperson cliff dwellera member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves
English > cliff dweller: 1 sense > noun 1, person
MeaningA member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves.
BroaderAnasaziA Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings

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