Cleveland

Meaning

1. A major city, the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
2. A census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida.
3. A geographic area of hills and dales in North Yorkshire, England.
4. A town in Blount County, Alabama.
5. A number of other places in the United States, including:
6. 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.
7. A village in Henry County, Illinois.
8. A city, the county seat of White County, Georgia, named after General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.

Etymology / origin

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.

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