CLIFF DWELLERS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

cliff dwellers

noun

plural of cliff dweller

as in residents

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Noun

Officers located two additional adult suspects, also Sacramento residents.

— Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026
The 2026 midterm elections are also demonstrating how issues that begin as disputes between local governments and residents can spread across the country and become part of national political identities.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of residents

Noun

The cave’s inhabitants also extracted marrow from bones for sustenance, according to the study.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Shakhtar Donetsk Watching Champions League evenings unfold at Stamford Bridge without its usual inhabitants, Chelsea, will take some getting used to.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of inhabitants

Noun

Two men had entered an apartment on North Sharon Amity Road and robbed the occupants, according to a police affidavit obtained by the Charlotte Observer.

— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2026
Five people were killed, all occupants of a van owned by a contract cleaning company for airlines and another vehicle, authorities previously said.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of occupants

Noun

Some 589 foreign nationals are among the missing, the NDRRMA said in their update.

— Kosh Raj Koirala, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
The South Korean nationals are among a growing number of people who have been abducted in recent months as for-ransom kidnappings remain a persistent threat as armed groups continue to expand their terriroties.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of nationals

Noun

Just like today’s tentacled ocean dwellers, the Mesozoic squid ancestor likely had no problem devouring its relatives—or even members of its own species.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
The modular design is easy to assemble (a gift for any apartment dwellers).

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of dwellers

Noun

Accordingly, the First Continental Congress wrote to Quebec’s habitants – residents of French origin – to invite them to join their new nationalist project.

— Sarah M.S. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026

Definition of habitants

Noun

In 1972, Little Feat expanded to a six-piece that included two Delaney & Bonnie sidemen who were Louisiana natives, bassist Kenny Gradney and percussionist Sam Clayton.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 8 Sep. 2026
Carter and Hammer are Oakland natives, and Carter was Hammer’s lead choreographer and backup dancer at the peak of the rapper’s career in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

— Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026

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