English Explanatory Dictionary

Cleveley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Cleveley Cleveleys Cleverly

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Enstone, Oxfordshire, from Old English clif (“cliff; river-bank”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to cliff + -ley (“lea”).

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