cliffs
KLIFS/klɪfs/
- 1Plural of cliff.
Seabirds nested in narrow crevices along the chalk cliffs.
Years of erosion have carved the coastal cliffs into jagged shapes.
Note
A plain -s plural that carries every meaning of its singular, not only rock faces. In the figurative sense, a company or a market can face several cliffs: points where value or performance suddenly drops away. Old writing about music holds a surprise, because cliff was once a spelling of clef. There, cliffs on a page of notation means musical clefs, not coastlines.
cliffs is a form of cliff
cliff, noun: A face of rock that rises vertically, or very nearly so, from the ground around it. Full entry
- Forms
- cliffcliffs plural
- Spelling
- cliff → cliffs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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