Clive
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklaɪv/
Audio (Southern 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 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."
- A village in Alberta.
- A city in Iowa.
- A town on the Clive River in Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand. [1]
- An eastern suburb of Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6766). [2]
- A village and civil parish in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5124). [3]
