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cleve

n. 1 (context Now chiefly dialectal English) A room; chamber. 2 (context Now chiefly dialectal English) A cottage.

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Cleve

Cleve or Cleves may refer to:

Cleve (given name)

Cleve is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Cleve Benedict (born 1935), American retired politician
  • Cleve Bryant, college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
  • Cleve Cartmill (1908–1964), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best remembered for a short story investigated by the FBI
  • Cleve Gray (1918–2004), American abstract expressionist painter
  • Cleve Jones (born 1954), American AIDS and LGBT rights activist
  • Cleve Moler (born 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist
Cleve (surname)

Cleve or van Cleve is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Astrid Cleve (1875–1968), Swedish biologist, geologist, chemist and researcher, first woman in Sweden to obtain a doctorate in science
  • Bastian Clevé (born 1950), German film director
  • Benjamin Van Cleve (1773–1821), a pioneer settler of Dayton, Ohio
  • Cornelius van Cleve (1520–1567), painter
  • Halfdan Cleve (1879–1951), Norwegian composer
  • Jim Van Cleve (born 1978), American musician, songwriter and producer
  • John Cleve, a pseudonym of Andrew J. Offutt (born 1934), American science fiction writer
  • Joos van Cleve (c. 1485–1540/41), Flemish painter, father of Cornelius
  • Hendrick van Cleve III (died 1589), painter and engraver born in Antwerp
  • Horatio P. Van Cleve (1809–1891), Union general in the American Civil War
  • James Van Cleve, football player in the United States, only the fourth known professional player
  • Martin Van Cleve (1520–1570), Flemish painter, brother of Hendrick and probably related to Joos
  • Per Teodor Cleve (1840–1905), Swedish chemist and geologist
  • Richard Cleve, Canadian computer scientist
  • Rudolf Cleve (1919–1997), highly decorated Luftwaffe officer of World War II
  • Anders Cleve (1937–1985), Finnish writer

Usage examples of "cleve".

Anne of Cleves, whose father, the duke of that name, had great interest among the Lutheran princes, and whose sister, Sibylla, was married to the elector of Saxony, the head of the Protestant league.

A brand-new Court-Ordered female, Ruth van Cleve, who looks like one of those people you see in pictures of African famine, has to fill out Intake forms and go through Orientation, and Gately goes over the House rules with her and gives her a copy of the Ennet House Survival Guide, which some resident years gone had written for Pat.

Ruth van Cleve in spike heels walking alongside a psychotically depressed Kate Gompert on Prospect just south of Inman Square, Cambridge, a little after 2200h.

Ruth van Cleve is shaping up to be excruciating for Kate Gompert to be around.

Ruth van Cleve hails from Braintree on the South Shore, is many kilos underweight, wears brass-colored lipstick, and has dry hair teased out in the big-hair fashion of decades past.

Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting sentencing for what Ruth van Cleve describes several times as operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.

Kate Gompert is trying not to shudder as Ruth van Cleve asks her if she knows someplace you can pick up a good toothbrush cheap.

Ruth van Cleve on its lurid tail and receding also, screaming bits of urban argot that became less faint than swallowed.

Ruth van Cleve had cried out as the apparition of just about the most unattractive woman Kate Gompert had ever seen crashed forward between them, knocking them apart.

The issue of Clues was dated November 1937, featured a Violet McDade story by Cleve F.

Julian, Cleve Jackson, convinced a jury not to convict a fellow lawyer of bank fraud.

In the fraud case, Cleve Jackson had repeatedly asserted that the police had mishandled crucial evidence.

Julian back to her place when the cops and Cleve Jackson had finished with him, and signed off.

As he went out the door he almost fell over Cleve Salter, the orderly.

Claudia Barnum, a nurse named Nancy Green, and Cleve Salter, an orderly.