English Explanatory Dictionary

cleve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A room; chamber.
  2. A cottage.
  3. A cliff or hillside.
name
  1. A small town on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, named after Cleve House in Devon, England.
  2. A local government area is this area of South Australia; in full, the District Council of Cleve.
  3. A surname.
  4. A male given name, found predominantly in the United States.

Word forms

cleve cleves

Etymology

From Middle English cleve, from Old English cleofa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.

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