AI & ChatGPT searches , social queries for CLEA
What is the name meaning of CLEA. Phrases containing CLEA
See name meanings and uses of CLEA!
What is the name meaning of CLEA. Phrases containing CLEA
See name meanings and uses of CLEA!CLEA
CLEA
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Mawdesley in Lancashire, named in Middle English with the Anglo-Norman French female personal name Maud + Middle English ley ‘clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin. it may be a habitational name from an unidentified place (there is a Mayhall Farm in Buckinghamshire, but it is not clear whether the family name is derived from the farm name or vice versa). Alternatively it may be a variant of Mayall, which is itself a variant of Male.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name, either a variant of Madeley (a name common to several places, including one in Shropshire and two in Staffordshire), named in Old English as ‘MÄda’s clearing’, from an unattested byname, MÄda (probably a derivative of mÄd ‘foolish’) + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’; or from Medley on the Thames in Oxfordshire, named in Old English with middel ‘middle’ + Ä“g ‘island’.English : nickname for an aggressive person, from Middle English, Old French medlee ‘combat’, ‘conflict’ (Late Latin misculata).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places in Devon and Cheshire, named in Old English as ‘common wood or clearing’, from (ge)mǣne ‘common’, ‘shared’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The surname is still chiefly found in the regions around these villages.English : nickname from Middle English mannly ‘manly’, ‘virile’, ‘brave’ (Old English mannlīc, originally ‘man-like’).Irish (County Cork) : Anglicized form of Ó Máinle (and often pronounced Mauly), of unexplained origin. Compare Malley.Irish (Connacht and Donegal) : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maonghaile ‘descendant of Maonghal’, a personal name derived from words meaning ‘wealth’ and ‘valor’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Cleaves in Devon (see Cleve).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a habitational name from clere, a component of several place names in north Hampshire (Highclere, Burghclere, Kingsclere). This is of uncertain origin, probably from a Celtic stream name meaning ‘bright’ (cognate with Latin clarus ‘clear’, ‘bright’).English and Irish : variant of Clare.Translation of German Klar 1.
Boy/Male
African, American, Australian, British, English, Jamaican
From the Cliff Land; Cliff; Form of Cleavant; A Steep Bank; Hilly Area; Land of Cliffs; Slope
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Cleasby in North Yorkshire, named from the Old Norse personal name Kleppr or Kleiss + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : name for someone who was related to an important local personality, from Middle English maugh, maw ‘relative’, especially by marriage (from Old English mÄge ‘female relative’). In the north of England this term was used more specifically to mean ‘brother-in-law’.English : topographic name from Middle English mawe ‘meadow’. Some early forms, such as Sibilla de la Mawe (Suffolk 1275), clearly indicate a topographic origin, by reason of the preposition and article.English : probably also from a Middle English personal name, Mawe, Old English MÄ“awa, perhaps originally a byname from Old English mÇ£w ‘sea mew’, ‘seagull’ (compare Mew).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Mackley in Derbyshire, which may have been named in Old English as ‘Macca’s forest’, from an unattested personal name + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, ‘glade’.Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Donnshleibhe ‘son of Donnshleibhe’, a personal name literally meaning ‘brown hill’.Probably also an Americanized form of German Mä(g)gli (see Magley).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a boundary (see Mark 2). It is notable that early examples of the surname tend to occur near borders, for example on the Kent-Sussex boundary.English : possibly an occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English mark(en) ‘to put a mark on’, although it is not clear what the exact nature of the work of such a ‘marker’ would be.English : relatively late development of Mercer. There is one family in Clitheroe, Lancashire, who spelled their name Mercer or Marcer in the 16th century, but Marker in the 17th.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish marker ‘servant’.German : status name for someone who lived on an area of land that was marked off from the village land or woodland, Middle High German merkære.Danish : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Markward.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas, the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. However, Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune, the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’, ‘great’. Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gem̄ðhyll (from gem̄ð ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin.A Scottish family of this name derives it from lands at Middleto(u)n near Kincardine. The Scottish physician Peter Middleton practiced in New York City after 1752 and was one of the founders of the medical school at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1767. One of the earliest of the Charleston, SC, Middleton family of prominent legislators was Arthur Middleton, born in Charleston in 1681.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places named Loxley, as for example one in Warwickshire, which is named with the Old English personal name Locc + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Mattingley in Hampshire, named in Old English as Mattinglēah ‘woodland clearing (lēah) associated with (-inga) a man called Matta’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, for example in Devon, Kent, and West Yorkshire. According to Ekwall, the first element of these place names is respectively Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’, myrig ‘pleasant’, and mearð ‘(pine) marten’. The second element in each case is Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland by a Northumbrian family who settled there in the 17th century.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places so named in Shropshire and Staffordshire, named in Old English with the personal name MÄda + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Wiltshire. For the most part the first element is either Old English (ge)mǣne ‘common’, ‘shared’ (see Manley, Manship), or the Old English byname Mann(a) (see Mann). However, in the case of Manton in Lincolnshire the early forms show clearly that it was Old English m(e)alm ‘sand’, ‘chalk’, with reference to the poor soil of the region. The second element is in each case Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.Irish (Cork) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Manntáin ‘descendant of Manntán’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of manntach ‘toothless’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Mobberley in Cheshire, named in Old English as ‘clearing with a fortified site where assemblies are held’, from (ge)mÅt ‘meeting’, ‘assembly’ + burh ‘enclosure’, ‘fortification’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of several places in West Yorkshire, or minor places in Cheshire, named in Old English as ‘midge glade’, from micg(e) ‘midge’ + lēah ‘wood’; ‘clearing’, ‘glade’.
CLEA
CLEA
CLEA
CLEA
CLEA
CLEA
CLEA
n.
The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.
n.
The act of cleaving or splitting.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Cleave
p. p.
of Cleave
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Cleave
imp.
of Cleave
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Clearstarch
n.
One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
v. t.
To strengthen with a cleat.
n.
One who clearstarches.
v. t.
To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
imp. & p. p.
of Clearstarch
a.
Capable of cleaving or being divided.
n.
The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
adv.
In a clear manner.
a.
Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
n.
The quality or state of being clear.
a.
Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
v. i.
To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.