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 geographic area of hills and dales in North Yorkshire, England.
- 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.
- A major 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.
- A number of other places in the United States, including:
- A town in Blount County, Alabama.
- A census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida.
- A city, the county seat of White County, Georgia, named after General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
- A village in Henry County, Illinois.
- A small city, one of the two county seats of Bolivar County, Mississippi.
- A small city in Cass County, Missouri.
- A small city in Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
- A village in Oswego County, New York.
- A small town in Cleveland Township, Rowan County, North Carolina.
- A tiny city in Stutsman County, North Dakota.
- A small city in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
- A small city, the county seat of Bradley County, Tennessee.
- A city in Liberty County, Texas.
- A tiny city in Emery County, Utah.
- A small town in Russell County, Virginia.
- A small town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
- A village in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
- A small city in Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
- A tiny city in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
- A tiny city in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
- A suburb of Redland City, Queensland, Australia.
- A township municipality of the Regional County Municipality of Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada.
- (countable) A surname.
Derived terms
Translations
city in Ohio
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former county in northeast England
Portuguese
Proper noun
Cleveland f
- Cleveland (a city in Ohio, United States)
Spanish
Proper noun
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