A cleft is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation. Cleft may refer to: Linguistics A cleft sentence, a type of grammatical construction Anatomy Cleft lip and palate, a congenital deformity A cleft chin, a dimple on the chin The pudendal cleft, part of the female genitalia Intergluteal cleft, the groove between the buttocks Places Cleft Island (Antarctica) Cleft Island (Victoria) Cleft Ledge Cleft Point Cleft Peak Cleft Rock Fiction The Cleft, a novel by 2007 Nobel prize laureate Doris Lessing The Cleft, a location in Age of D'ni from the computer game Myst Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder, a character in The Fairly Odd Parents Rainbow Cleft (Cirith Ninniach), a minor place in Beleriand, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. See also Cleave (disambiguation), the present tense of the past participle "cleft"