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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
cleft
cleft [cleft clefts] noun, adjective BrE [kleft] NAmE [kleft]
see also ↑cleave v.
noun
a natural opening or crack, for example in the ground or in rock, or in a person's chin
•a cleft in the rocks
•They walked up a cleft in the hills.
Word Origin:
n. Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to ↑cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’.
Example Bank:
•the cleft in his chin
Idiom: ↑in a cleft stick
adjective
Word Origin:
n. Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to ↑cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’.
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