cliff dweller

cliff dweller

n.1. A member of certain Ancestral Puebloan groups of the southwest United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on sheltered ledges in the sides of cliffs.2. Informal A person who lives in a large apartment house, especially in a city.

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cliff dwelling n.

cliff′ dwell`er

n. 1. (usu. caps.) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S. who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs. 2. one who lives in a large apartment house. [1880–85, Amer.] cliff′ dwell`ing, n.

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cliff dweller - a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of cavesAnasazi - a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings