Ava

Definitions

1. A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.
2. An abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.
   historical
3. Initialism of American Viticultural Area: a designated wine grape-growing region in the United States, providing an official appellation for the mutual benefit of wineries and consumers.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
4. A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.
5. A town in New York, United States; named for the Kingdom of Ava.
6. Initialism of arteriovenous anastomosis.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
7. A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.
8. A locale in the United States.
9. A city in Illinois.
10. A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Missouri.
11. An unincorporated community in Alabama.
12. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
13. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“In the Tonga Islands , the ava root, when dry, is split⟳ up into small pieces with an axe or other sharp instrument”

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

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