Cleveland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliːv.lənd/
Forms: form: Clevelands
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.
Senses: glosses: A geographic area of hills and dales in North Yorkshire, England.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2020 June 10, Stephen Markley, “Pete Beatty’s ‘Cuyahoga’ Images an Ohio, and a Country, Divided”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2020:
glosses: A major city, the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of other places in the United States, including:
A town in Blount County, Alabama.
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A census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida.
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A city, the county seat of White County, Georgia, named after General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
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A village in Henry County, Illinois.
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A small city, one of the two county seats of Bolivar County, Mississippi.
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A small city in Cass County, Missouri.
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A small city in Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
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A village in Oswego County, New York.
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A small town in Cleveland Township, Rowan County, North Carolina.
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A tiny city in Stutsman County, North Dakota.
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A small city in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
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A small city, the county seat of Bradley County, Tennessee.
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A city in Liberty County, Texas.
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A tiny city in Emery County, Utah.
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A small town in Russell County, Virginia.
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A small town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
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A village in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
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A small city in Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
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A tiny city in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
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A tiny city in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A suburb of Redland City, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A township municipality of the Regional County Municipality of Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada.
examples: text: He also became the second president ever to win election to the office nonconsecutively, after Grover Cleveland.
ref: 2024 November 6, Joseph Addington, “Trump Elected President of the United States”, in The American Conservative:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Carlton in Cleveland
Cleveland Bay
Cleveland County
Cleveland Heights
Cleveland steamer
East Cleveland
Redcar and Cleveland