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sliven

sliven is the past participle of slive.

Meaning of slive

Verb (1)

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past slove or slived, past participle sliven or slived)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To cut; split; separate.
  2. (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Verb (2)

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past and past participle slived)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.

Verb (3)

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past and past participle slived)

  1. (slang) To live life to the fullest while being successful, glamorous, and confident.

See all 5 meanings of slive

Proper noun capitalized: Sliven

Sliven

  1. A town in central Bulgaria.

Questions about sliven

What does sliven mean?
Sliven means a town in central Bulgaria.
What is sliven the past participle of?
Sliven is the past participle of slive.
What part of speech is sliven?
Sliven is a proper noun.

Words near sliven in the dictionary

  1. slitwise
  2. Sliva
  3. Slivas
  4. slive
  5. slived
  6. sliven
  7. sliver
  8. sliver moon
  9. slivercast
  10. slivercasted
  11. slivercaster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sliven (page history and authors); Sliven (page history and authors); slive (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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