Word.ws English Dictionary

cleeve

cleeve noun: a large wickerwork basket for carrying produce or turf.

Noun

cleeve (plural cleeves)

  1. A large wickerwork basket for carrying produce or turf.

Proper noun capitalized: Cleeve

Cleeve (countable and uncountable, plural Cleeves)

  1. A surname.
  2. A village and civil parish in North Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4666).

Forms of cleeve

Noun
pluralcleeves
Proper noun
pluralCleeves

Origin of cleeve

From Irish cliabh (“basket”).

Phrases with cleeve

Questions about cleeve

What does cleeve mean?
Cleeve means a large wickerwork basket for carrying produce or turf.
What part of speech is cleeve?
Cleeve can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cleeve?
The plural of cleeve is cleeves.

Words near cleeve in the dictionary

  1. Cleese
  2. Cleese's woolly lemur
  3. Cleese's woolly lemurs
  4. Cleesian
  5. Cleethorpes
  6. cleeve
  7. cleeves
  8. clef
  9. clefamide
  10. cleff
  11. cleffer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cleeve (page history and authors); Cleeve (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cleeve.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cleeve. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.