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Clive

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Clive ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of the various places (e.g. in Cheshire, Shropshire) so called from Old English clif ‘cliff, slope, bank’. As a given name it seems to have been originally chosen in honour of ‘Clive of India’ (Robert Clive, created Baron Clive of Plassey in 1760).

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Clive

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Clive Shrops. Clive 1255. ‘(Place) at the cliff or bank’. OE clif (dative clife).

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Clive

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Clive •alive, arrive, chive, Clive, connive, contrive, deprive, dive, drive, five, gyve, hive, I've, jive, live, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, skive, strive, survive, swive, thrive •skydive • swan dive • nosedive •swallow dive • scuba-dive • Argive •beehive • archive

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	Clive and kicking; CLIVE ANDERSON.(Features) Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 8/28/1999
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