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CLIFF
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English
English : habitational name from a place named with Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name from the same word. The Old English word was used not only in the sense of modern English cliff but also of much gentler slopes and frequently also of a riverbank.
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English
English : habitational name, perhaps from Lepton in West Yorkshire, which is named from Old English hlēp ‘leap’ (hence ‘cliff’, ‘steep slope’) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : probably a variant of Leverton.
Male
English
Near the Cliff
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English
English : habitational name from Gaultney in Rushton, Northamptonshire, probably so named from Old Norse gǫltr ‘boar’ + Old Danish klint ‘steep cliff or bank’ with the later addition of Middle English heye ‘enclosure’. The surname is not found in the U.K. In the U.S., it is concentrated in GA. Compare Gautney.
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English and Scottish (of Norman origin)
English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Falaise in Calvados, France, the birthplace of William the Conqueror. The place is so named from Old French falaise ‘cliff’ (a word of Germanic origin).Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of McFalls.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places, in various parts of England, called Ratcliff(e), Radcliffe, Redcliff, or Radclive, all of which derive their names from Old English rēad ‘red’ + clif ‘cliff’, ‘slope’, ‘riverbank’.
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Gatley in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire), recorded in 1290 as Gateclyve, from Old English gÄt ‘goat’ + clif ‘cliff’, ‘bank’.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English
From the Farm Near the Cliff
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English
Originally a short form of English Clifford ("cliff river crossing)", this name became an independent name, CLIFF means simply "cliff."
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English
English : habitational name from any of the three places in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English sūð ‘south’ + clif ‘riverbank’, ‘slope’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
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Settlement by the Cliff; Ford Near the Cliff; Form of Clifford
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English
English : topographic name from Old Norse sker ‘rock’, later dialect scar ‘rocky cliff’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Cliff.
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English
English : habitational name from Topcliff in North Yorkshire or Topcliffe in West Yorkshire. The first was named from Toppa (an unattested Old English personal name) + clif ‘cliff’, ‘bank’, ‘slope’, and the second from Old Norse topt ‘enclosure’ + Old English clif.
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English
English : from Middle English gappe, Old Norse gap ‘chasm’, ‘breach’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a gap in a wall, hedge, or (in Norfolk and Suffolk) cliffs.German : from the personal name Gabo, a short form of Gebolf (see Gebhardt).
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from an unattested Old English element henge ‘steep’ + Old English clif ‘cliff’.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, German, Indian
Ford Near the Cliff; Name of a Place; Near a Slope
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Clifford, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The place name is derived from Old English clif ‘slope’ + ford ‘ford’.A family of this name trace their descent from Walter de Clifford, who acquired the surname from Clifford Castle near Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in the 12th century.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Shropshire and Cheshire, named Clive, from the dative case of Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘cliff’ (see Cliff), originally used after a preposition. In some cases the name may be topographical, with the same origin and meaning.
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English American
River ford near a cliff.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Supreme Consciousness
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Biblical
In strength.
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Tamil
Satendra | ஸதேநà¯à®¤à¯à®°Â
Lord Vishnu, Lord of truth
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Tamil
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Gift of flame
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Hindu, Indian
Divine
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American, Australian, British, English
Meadow of Ash Trees; Ash Tree Grove
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English
English : variant spelling of Birkhead (see Birkett).Americanized form of German Burkhart.
Girl/Female
German, Swedish
Pure; Holy
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Mythological, Sanskrit
Lord of the Earth; Lord Shiva
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Hindu, Indian
Praised in Song
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v. t.
To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
n.
A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
a.
Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
n.
A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
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Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
n.
A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
n.
A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
n.
One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
n.
The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
a.
Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
n.
A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
a.
Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
n.
A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.
n.
See Clef.
v. i.
To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
n.
A cliff.
a.
White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
n.
A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.
n.
A hill; a cliff.