cliff dwelling

1. 1.

   a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff

   “the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States”

   Broaderdwelling

Questions about cliff dwelling

What does cliff dwelling mean?

cliff dwelling means "a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff".

Is cliff dwelling a common word?

cliff dwelling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.