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Palisades¹

  • /palɪseɪdz/ US

proper noun the 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.
  2. A group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada, California.
  3. A mountain range of Napa County, California.
  4. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Pacific Palisades: a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

palisades²

noun

  1. plural plural of palisade

verb

  1. indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of palisade

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@misc{palisades_2026,
  title = {palisades},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/palisades},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}