"clifftop" meaning in English

See clifftop in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: clifftops [plural]
Etymology: cliff + top Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cliff|top}} cliff + top Head templates: {{en-noun}} clifftop (plural clifftops)
  1. The top of a cliff.
    Sense id: en-clifftop-en-noun-5JEvnlk8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for clifftop meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cliff",
        "3": "top"
      },
      "expansion": "cliff + top",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "cliff + top",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clifftops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clifftop (plural clifftops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 15, Nigel Harris, “HST's East Coast Farewell Tour”, in Rail, page 33",
          "text": "At Berwick I had the privilege of joining Driver Ross Clark for my favourite clifftop run south through Northumberland, to Newcastle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The top of a cliff."
      ],
      "id": "en-clifftop-en-noun-5JEvnlk8",
      "links": [
        [
          "top",
          "top"
        ],
        [
          "cliff",
          "cliff"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clifftop"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cliff",
        "3": "top"
      },
      "expansion": "cliff + top",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "cliff + top",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clifftops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clifftop (plural clifftops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 15, Nigel Harris, “HST's East Coast Farewell Tour”, in Rail, page 33",
          "text": "At Berwick I had the privilege of joining Driver Ross Clark for my favourite clifftop run south through Northumberland, to Newcastle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The top of a cliff."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "top",
          "top"
        ],
        [
          "cliff",
          "cliff"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clifftop"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.