palisades

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US/palɪseɪdz/

proper noun

A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.

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Meanings

palisades1

noun
  1. pluralplural of palisade
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of palisade

Palisades2

proper nounthe Palisades
  1. A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.

    Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea.

    2022 February 3, Lucas Joel, “Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022
  2. A group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada, California.
  3. A mountain range of Napa County, California.
  4. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Pacific Palisades: a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
pacific palisades
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APA

palisades. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palisades

MLA

“palisades.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palisades. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “palisades,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palisades.

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