Cleveland

Meaning

Proper Noun

• large city, county seat Cuyahoga County (county) Ohio (state) USA (country).
• small city, county seat Bradley County (county) Tennessee (state) USA (country).
• small city Mississippi (state) USA (country) and one of the two county seats of Bolivar County.
• 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.

Origin

• From place names in England (i.e. Cleveland, England), from Middle English Cleveland, Clyveland, from Middle English clive, cleve, cleove + land, equivalent to cliff + land.