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chilvers

chilvers is the plural of chilver.

Meaning of chilver

Noun

chilver (plural chilvers)

  1. A female lamb.
    • The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost1812, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dorset, page 407

Proper noun capitalized: Chilvers

Chilvers

  1. A surname.

Origin of chilvers

From Chilver + 's (“son or family of Chilver”), from Old English Ċēolfriþ, from ċēol (“ship, boat”) + friþ (“peace”).

Questions about chilvers

What does chilvers mean?
Chilvers means a surname.
What is chilvers the plural of?
Chilvers is the plural of chilver.
What part of speech is chilvers?
Chilvers is a proper noun.

Words near chilvers in the dictionary

  1. Chilula
  2. Chilulas
  3. Chilunda
  4. Chilung
  5. chilver
  6. chilvers
  7. Chilwell
  8. Chilwells
  9. Chilworth
  10. chim
  11. Chima

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chilvers (page history and authors); Chilvers (page history and authors); chilver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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