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)

1. A number of places in the United States, including:
   1. A city, the county seat of White County, Georgia, named after General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
   2. A small city in Mississippi and one of the two county seats of Bolivar County.
   4. A large city, the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
      • 2020 October 6, Stephen Markley, “Pete Beatty’s ‘Cuyahoga’ Images an Ohio, and a Country, Divided”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

        The year is 1837, and the Cuyahoga is the sidewinding river separating the empire of Cleveland from the more rough-hewn frontier town of Ohio City.

   5. A small city, the county seat of Bradley County, Tennessee.
   6. A city in Liberty County, Texas.
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. (countable) A surname.

Derived terms

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

Translations

city in Ohio

• Bulgarian: Кли́вланд m (Klívland)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克利夫蘭 / 克利夫兰 (zh) (Kèlìfūlán), 克里夫蘭 (Kèlǐfūlán)

• Esperanto: Klevlando
• French: Cleveland (fr)
• Hebrew: קְלִיבְלַנְד f (klívland)
• Japanese: クリーブランド (Kurīburando)
• Latvian: Klīvlenda f
• Lithuanian: Klyvlendas
• Polish: Cleveland (pl)
• Portuguese: Cleveland f
• Russian: Кли́вленд (ru) m (Klívlend)
• Spanish: Cleveland (es)
• Ukrainian: Клі́вленд m (Klívlend)

former county in northeast England

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克利夫蘭 / 克利夫兰 (zh) (Kèlìfūlán)

• Old Norse: Kliflǫnd n pl
• Russian: Кли́вленд (ru) m (Klívlend)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Cleveland f

1. Cleveland (a city in Ohio, United States)

Spanish

Proper noun

Cleveland ?

1. Cleveland (a city in Ohio)