Cleveland
English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkliːv.lənd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun
Cleveland (countable and uncountable, plural Clevelands)
- A number of places in the United States, including:
- A city, the county seat of White County, Georgia, named after General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
- A small city in Mississippi and one of the two county seats of Bolivar County.
- A large city, the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
- A small city, the county seat of Bradley County, Tennessee.
- A city in Liberty County, Texas.
- 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.
- (countable) A surname.
Derived terms
Translations
city in Ohio
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