# Cleveland

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈkliːv.lənd/ · frequency rank #4,511

## Definitions
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.
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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.

## 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.

## Common misspellings (14)
`ccleveland`, `celveland`, `cleevland`, `clevealnd`, `cleveladn`, `clevelandd`, `clevelannd`, `clevelland`, `clevelnad`, `clevleand`, `clevveland`, `clleveland`, `clveeland`, `lceveland`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cleveland