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Cleveland

proper noun

  1. American city
  2. place name
  3. family name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkliːv.lənd/

name

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.

  1. A geographic area of hills and dales in North Yorkshire, England.
  2. 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.
  3. A major city, the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

    “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.”

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  24. A suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
  25. A suburb of Redland City, Queensland, Australia.
  26. A locality in Northern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
  27. A township municipality of the Regional County Municipality of Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada.
  28. A surname.

    “He also became the second president ever to win election to the office nonconsecutively, after Grover Cleveland.”