English Explanatory Dictionary

Cleveland

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A geographic area of hills and dales in North Yorkshire, England.
  2. A former county in northeast England, bordering North Yorkshire and County Durham, created in 1974 from parts of those two counties (mainly the County Borough of Teesside) and abolished in 1996.
  3. A major city, the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
  4. A number of other places in the United States, including:
  5. A town in Blount County, Alabama.
  6. A census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida.
  7. A city, the county seat of White County, Georgia, named after General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
  8. A village in Henry County, Illinois.
  9. A small city, one of the two county seats of Bolivar County, Mississippi.
  10. A small city in Cass County, Missouri.
  11. A small city in Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
  12. A village in Oswego County, New York.

Pronunciation

/ˈkliːv.lənd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cleveland.wav

Word forms

Cleveland Clevelands

Etymology

From place names in England (i.e. Cleveland, England), from Middle English Cleveland, Clyveland, from Middle English clive, cleve, cleove (“cliff”) + land, equivalent to cliff + land.

Derived words

Carlton in Cleveland Cleveland Bay Cleveland County Cleveland Heights Cleveland steamer East Cleveland Redcar and Cleveland

Translations

Arabic: كليفلاند Bulgarian: Кли́вланд Chinese Mandarin: 克利夫蘭 /克利夫兰 Chinese Mandarin: 克里夫蘭 /克里夫兰 Esperanto: Klevlando Esperanto: Klivlando French: Cleveland German: Cleveland Greek: Κλίβλαντ Hebrew: קְלִיבְלַנְד Japanese: クリーブランド Japanese: クリーヴランド Latin: Clevelandum Latin: Clevelandia Latvian: Klīvlenda Lithuanian: Klyvlendas Polish: Cleveland Portuguese: Cleveland Russian: Кли́вленд Spanish: Cleveland Ukrainian: Клі́вленд
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