Definition of "Fife"

Fife

/ˈfaɪf/

proper noun
1. A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
  Quotations
  Ross: Will you to Scone?Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv], line 993
2. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.