Definition of CliffsNotes in US English:
CliffsNotes
(also Cliffs Notes)
noun ˈklifsnōtsˈklifsnōts
trademark A brand name for a series of prepared notes used as study guides for literary works and other school and college subject matter.
Example sentencesExamples
- Hankins raced through a CliffsNotes summary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
- In assembling a CliffsNotes to his or her own emotional history, a teen begins compiling ‘self-defining memories’ such as Baumbach's treasured museum expeditions.
- As we learned from the CliffsNotes site, the booklets were named after their founder, Cliff Hillegass.
- Students from junior high to grad school have been turning to CliffsNotes to save study time since 1958.
- Written exclusively by experienced teachers and educators, CliffsNotes are the resource of choice for today's students.
Origin
For Cliff Hillegass (1918–2001), US developer of the series.