Cleve vs Clive - What's the difference?
cleve | clive |
- someone who lived near a cliff ( (etyl) clif ).
derived from the surname. Popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.
* 1949 (Mazo de la Roche), Mary Wakefield , Dundurn Press (2009), ISBN 1550028774, page 132:
A village in Alberta.
A city in Iowa.
A town in New Zealand.
A village in Shropshire, England.
As a noun cleve
is a room; chamber.As a verb clive is
.clive
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive ." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."