Definition of "Clive"

Clive

/ˈklaɪv/

proper noun
1. A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).
2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.
  Quotations
  "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."
  1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, page 132
3. A village in Alberta.
4. A city in Iowa.
5. A town on the Clive River in Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand.
6. A village and civil parish in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5124).