ava

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ava

UK/ˈeɪvə/

Ava

1. A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.
   • Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, W.S.Bryan, page 57
   • My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.2004, Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5
2. A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.
3. A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.
4. A city in Illinois.
5. A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Missouri.
6. An unincorporated community in Alabama.
7. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
8. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ava

Ava

1. (historical) An abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.
2. A town in New York, United States; named for the Kingdom of Ava.

Noun capitalized: AVA

AVA (countable and uncountable, plural AVAs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of American Viticultural Area: a designated wine grape-growing region in the United States, providing an official appellation for the mutual benefit of wineries and consumers.
2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of arteriovenous anastomosis.