neve
/niːv/
neve noun: nephew.
Noun
neve (plural neves)
- Nephew.
- Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve, and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.1920, Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe
- A male cousin.
- Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve" ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.1988, Michael Tepper, New World immigrants
- A grandson.
- A spendthrift.
Proper noun capitalized: Neve
Neve (plural Neves)
- A surname from Middle English.
neve meaning in Tamil
neve in Tamil
- உதிரிப்பனி, பனியாற்றுப் பனிப்படலம்
Forms of neve
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | neves |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Neves |
| alternative form | Neave |
| alternative form | Neaves |
| alternative form | Neeve |
| alternative form | Neeves |
Origin of neve
From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Today mostly displaced by its cognate nephew (from Old French neveu). Compare nift (“niece”). Doublet of nephew.
* As an English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish surname, from a descendant of Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”). * As a French surname, from the placename En Nève, from En ève (“in water”), corresponding to modern en eau. * As an Italian, Portuguese, and Galician surname, from or related to neve (“snow”).
Words that rhyme with neve
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- eve
- grieve
- Kharkiv
- breve
- conceive
- naive
- Pishchiv
- weave
- keeve
- Neave
- Piskiv
- reeve
- screeve
- skeeve
- aggrieve
- beleave
- French leave
- greave
- interweave
- perceive
- reave
- seave
- sheave
- shrieve
- sleave
- steeve
- steve
- take French leave
- Abib
- beeve
- deceive
- dreve
- Dutch leave
- eave
- gneeve
- khedive
- nieve
- peeve
- preconceive
- rebelieve
- reperceive
- thieve
- transceive
- we've
- Yves
Questions about neve
- What does neve mean?
- Neve means nephew.
- What is neve in Tamil?
- Neve in Tamil is உதிரிப்பனி, பனியாற்றுப் பனிப்படலம். See Neve meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is neve?
- Neve can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce neve?
- Neve is pronounced /niːv/.
- What is the plural of neve?
- The plural of neve is neves.
Words near neve in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: neve (page history and authors); Neve (page history and authors); neve (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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