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Ava

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈeɪvə//
  • //ˈɑːvə//

A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.

    Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.

    My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.

  2. 2

    A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.

  3. 3

    A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.

  4. 4

    A locale in the United States. A city in Illinois.

  5. 5

    A locale in the United States. A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Missouri.

  6. 6

    A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Alabama.

  7. 7

    A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.

  8. 8

    A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

proper noun

  1. 1

    historicalAn abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.

  2. 2

    A town in New York, United States; named for the Kingdom of Ava.

Etymology

From Portuguese, from the Upper Burmese pronunciation of အင်းဝ (ang:wa. /⁠ăwá⁠/).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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