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ave

nouninterjectionnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɑːveɪ//
  • //ˈæveɪ//
  • //ˈeɪvi//
  • //æv//

A salutation.

noun

  1. 1

    A salutation.

  2. 2

    An Ave Maria.

    Ye’ll come and find the place where I am lying And kneel and say an ave there for me.

Etymology

From Latin ave.

interjection

  1. 1

    A reverential salutation.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of avenueAbbreviation of avenue.

    Eleven blocks up the ave from his parents but a different city.

  2. 2

    Variant of averageAbbreviation of average.

Etymology

Abbreviation.

Forms

plural
aves
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.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).