Clive
See also: clive and clivé
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklaɪv/
Audio (Berkshire, England) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪv
Proper noun
Clive
- A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).
- A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in Britain in 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."
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- A village in Alberta.
- A city in Iowa.
- A town in New Zealand.
- A village and civil parish in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5124).
Anagrams
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