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Cliff vs Clift - What's the difference?

cliff | clift |

As nouns the difference between cliff and clift

is that cliff is a vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face while clift is a cliff.

As a proper noun Cliff

is a diminutive of the male given name Clifford.

cliff

English

(wikipedia cliff)

Etymology 1

(etyl) clif .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
    • Synonyms
    * precipice
    Derived terms
    * cliff swallow * cliff-face * cliffed * cliffhanger * cliffing * cliffy

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music)
    • (Webster 1913)

    clift

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
  • *:So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift , / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away [...].
  • *1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
  • *:so broad is the bay here, we could scarce perceive the great high clifts on the other side: by them we Anchored that night and called them Riccards Cliftes.

    • Derived terms

    *clifty