Noun: cleft
| Singular | cleft |
| Plural | clefts |
Sample Sentences
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The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.
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Then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him / Like a distorted mouth that splits its rim / Gaping at death, and dies while it recoils. [1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXVI:]
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a cleft of wood
Nouns inflected like cleft
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English clift, from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-West Germanic *klufti, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz, equivalent to cleave + -t (“-th”). Compare Dutch klucht (“coarse comedy”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”), German Kluft. See cleave. See: Middle English Nouns '
clift', Dutch Nouns '
klucht', German Nouns '
Kluft'.
Verbs referencing "cleft"
German Nouns
Kluft.