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cleve.

A room; chamber.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A room; chamber.

    dialectal
  2. A cottage.

    dialectal
  3. A cliff or hillside.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English cleve, from Old English cleofa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.

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