cliff dwellers

noun

plural of cliff dweller
as in residents

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  1. residents
  2. inhabitants
  3. occupants
  4. nationals
  5. dwellers
  6. habitants
  7. natives
Noun
  • Hundreds of mourners later gathered at Rehman Baba cemetery for mass funeral prayers as grief gripped the neighborhood and announcements echoed from mosque loudspeakers, urging residents to join in prayers for those killed.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Under constant threats from above, residents live largely in a spider’s world, with roads, sidewalks and gas stations draped in netting to entangle drones.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of residents
Noun
  • For a long time, bunkers were designed to protect inhabitants from the fallout of nuclear weapons.
    — Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • More than 90 percent of Gaza’s inhabitants are internally displaced.
    — KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of inhabitants
Noun
  • All six occupants were ultimately found dead at the scene, authorities said.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Ann Arbor Fire Department Both the occupants and their cat got out safely, the department said.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of occupants
Noun
  • The figures classify overseas attendees as those who are not Singaporean nationals.
    — Jenny Lee,Matthew Tan, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Then, two Ukrainian nationals were arrested, raising questions about state involvement and presenting a test of loyalty for some of Kyiv’s European allies.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of nationals
Noun
  • But locks evolved rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when growing numbers of city dwellers became increasingly concerned about rising theft and the security of their property.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Gray noise, per The New York Times, may sound like wind blowing or steady rainfall and works for apartment dwellers sensitive to sharp or fluctuating noises.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 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
  • The fund backs music and arts curriculums in public schools inspired by Brooklyn natives Jean-Michel Basquiat and Max Roach.
    — James LaForge, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Columbus, for all his accomplishments in exploration, also had a brutal history of killing, raping, and enslaving natives, and forcing cultural assimilation and Christianity during his conquest of the Americas.
    — Mackenzie Chase, The Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2026
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“Cliff dwellers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliff%20dwellers. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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