ava

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see also: Ava

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Noun

ava (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava
   • 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bottle Imp

     […] the schooners plying up the coast for wood and ava and bananas.

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Ava

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈeɪvə/

Proper noun

1. A female given name, a variant of Eva.
   • 1881 Mary E. Jackson: The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, W.S.Bryan 1881, page 57

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

   • 2004 Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel, HarperCollins, ISBN 0060528044, page 5

     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. A female given name, an anglicization of Aoife.
3. A female given name, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.
4. A locale in US.
   1. A city in Illinois.
   2. A city/county seat in Douglas County, Missouri.
   3. An unincorporated community in Alabama.
   4. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
   5. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɑːvə/

Proper noun

1. (historical) An abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.
2. A town in New York, US.

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