Clive

See also: clive and clivé

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪv

Proper noun

Clive

1. A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.
   • 1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132:

     "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."

3. A village in Alberta.
4. A city in Iowa.
5. A town on the Clive River in Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand.
6. An eastern suburb of Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6766).
7. A village and civil parish in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5124).

Anagrams

• Velic, velic