CLIFF DWELLERS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

cliff dwellers

noun

plural of cliff dweller

as in residents

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Noun

Back then, 50 yuan was roughly equivalent to a month’s income for many rural residents.

— CNN Staff, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Others were injured and over 200,000 residents were without electricity on Sunday morning.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of residents

Noun

Aris and co-screenwriter Bane Fakih circle back and forth in time and depict a resilient city whose inhabitants have weathered a lot.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026
The inhabitants of rotten-tail buildings repurpose the old and improvise to find a way of surviving an economic storm.

— Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of inhabitants

Noun

In November, California voters will elect a new governor, fill other statewide offices and choose occupants of 152 legislative and congressional seats.

— Dan Walters, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Before the shooting broke out, the victim and other occupants of the residence were playing cards, according to the Winter Garden Police Department.

— Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of occupants

Noun

That 2023 event saw Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups kill 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals and abduct 251 people.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026
This can affect foreign nationals’ abilities to bank, use credit cards, or even pay bills.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of nationals

Noun

But the Magic were supposed to be bottom dwellers that season and Rivers used a preseason ranking of the league’s top 300 players as inspiration — since none of those top 300 were playing for the Magic.

— Tim Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Apartment dwellers know all too well that every square inch counts, but optimizing a smaller bathroom or half bathroom doesn’t need to feel like a gargantuan task.

— Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 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

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