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zive

zive is the alternative form of scythe.

Meaning of scythe

Noun

scythe (plural scythes)

  1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
    • And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
      Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  2. (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
  3. The tenth Lenormand card.

See all 7 meanings of scythe

Forms of zive

pluralzives

Questions about zive

What is zive the alternative form of?
Zive is the alternative form of scythe.

Words near zive in the dictionary

  1. zitting cisticolas
  2. Zittings
  3. zitty
  4. zivana
  5. zivania
  6. zive
  7. zives
  8. Zivic
  9. Ziyad
  10. Ziyang
  11. ziyara

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zive (page history and authors); scythe (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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