name
Meaning 1
A unisex given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
ivy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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īʹvē
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/ˈaɪvi/
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rhymes with -aɪvi
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CMU ARPABET: AY1 V IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A unisex given name from English.
A female given name from English; popular in the UK in the beginning of the 20th century.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A unisex given name from English.
A male given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Examples
- Ivy Andrews, Ivy Calvin, Ivy Lee
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
Meaning 4
A diminutive of the male given name Ivan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Examples
- Ivy Olson, Ivy Williamson
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name
Meaning 5
A surname from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
Any similar plant of any genus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
A university that is part of the Ivy League.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 9
Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: common ivy, English ivy, Hedera helix
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vine
History
Etymology
From ivy, the name of a plant. An ivy branch used to be hung outside an establishment to advertise that it sold alcohol, so it may originally been an occupationational surname for the proprietor of such an establishment.
From Middle English ivi, from Old English īfiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *ibig, *ibag, *ibah, from Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare West Flemish iefte, Low German Eiloov, Ieloof, German Efeu), from Proto-Indo-European *(h1)ebh- (compare Welsh efwr (“black elder”), Ancient Greek ἴφυον (íphuon, “spike-lavender, Lavandula Spica”)).
Ellipsis of Ivy League.
Across languages
Translations
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: dredhkë — plant of the genus Hedera
- Albanian: hurdhe — plant of the genus Hedera
- Arabic: لَبْلَاب (lablāb) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Armenian: բաղեղ (baġeġ) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Aromanian: eadirã — plant of the genus Hedera
- Aromanian: eadiri — plant of the genus Hedera
- Aromanian: iadirã — plant of the genus Hedera
- Asturian: hedra — plant of the genus Hedera
- Azerbaijani: sarmaşıq — plant of the genus Hedera
- Basque: huntz — plant of the genus Hedera
- Basque: xira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Breton: iliavenn — plant of the genus Hedera
- Bulgarian: бръшлян (brǎšljan) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Catalan: heura — plant of the genus Hedera
- Catalan: hedra — plant of the genus Hedera
- Chechen: хутал-буц (xutal-buc) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏗ (ulvdi) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Chinese Mandarin: 常春藤 (chángchūnténg) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Cornish: idhyow — plant of the genus Hedera
- Corsican: eddera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Corsican: ellera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Corsican: eddara — plant of the genus Hedera
- Corsican: ellara — plant of the genus Hedera
- Corsican: lellera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Corsican: lellara — plant of the genus Hedera
- Corsican: lillura — plant of the genus Hedera
- Czech: břečťan — plant of the genus Hedera
- Dacian: arpropria — plant of the genus Hedera
- Danish: efeu — plant of the genus Hedera
- Danish: vedbend — plant of the genus Hedera
- Dutch: klimop — plant of the genus Hedera
- Dutch: eiloof — plant of the genus Hedera
- Esperanto: hedero — plant of the genus Hedera
- Estonian: luuderohi — plant of the genus Hedera
- Faroese: viðbenda — plant of the genus Hedera
- Faroese: viðbendil — plant of the genus Hedera
- Finnish: muratti — plant of the genus Hedera
- French: lierre — plant of the genus Hedera
- Friulian: jêre — plant of the genus Hedera
- Galician: hedra — plant of the genus Hedera
- Galician: hedreira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Galician: malvela — plant of the genus Hedera
- Galician: areira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Galician: ireira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Georgian: სურო (suro) — plant of the genus Hedera
- German: Efeu — plant of the genus Hedera
- Greek: κισσός (kissós) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Ancient Greek: κισσός (kissós) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Hebrew: קיסוס (kissós) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Hungarian: borostyán — plant of the genus Hedera
- Icelandic: bergflétta — plant of the genus Hedera
- Ido: hedero — plant of the genus Hedera
- Irish: eidhneachán — plant of the genus Hedera
- Irish: eidhneán — plant of the genus Hedera
- Irish: eidheann — plant of the genus Hedera
- Istriot: lelera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Italian: edera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Korean: 담쟁이 (damjaeng'i) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Latin: hedera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Lithuanian: gebenė — plant of the genus Hedera
- Low German: Ieloof — plant of the genus Hedera
- Luxembourgish: Eefeu — plant of the genus Hedera
- Luxembourgish: Wantergréng — plant of the genus Hedera
- Macedonian: бршлен (bršlen) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Manx: hibbin — plant of the genus Hedera
- Norwegian: eføy — plant of the genus Hedera
- Occitan: èdra — plant of the genus Hedera
- Old English: īfiġ — plant of the genus Hedera
- Persian: عشقه ('ašaqe) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Persian: پاپیتال (pâpitâl) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Persian: سن (san) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Persian: بلوه (balve) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Piedmontese: ardité — plant of the genus Hedera
- Polish: bluszcz — plant of the genus Hedera
- Portuguese: hera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Romanian: iederă — plant of the genus Hedera
- Romansh: fegliadella — plant of the genus Hedera
- Romansh: edra — plant of the genus Hedera
- Russian: плющ (pljušč) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sardinian: edora — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sardinian: edola — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sardinian: edera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Scottish Gaelic: eidheann — plant of the genus Hedera
- Scottish Gaelic: eidheannach — plant of the genus Hedera
- Serbo-Croatian: бршљан — plant of the genus Hedera
- Serbo-Croatian: bršljan — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sicilian: èdira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sicilian: èddira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sicilian: ètira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sicilian: èddara — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sicilian: arrèddira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Sicilian: lèddira — plant of the genus Hedera
- Slovak: brečtan — plant of the genus Hedera
- Slovene: bršljan — plant of the genus Hedera
- Lower Sorbian: blušć — plant of the genus Hedera
- Upper Sorbian: blušć — plant of the genus Hedera
- Spanish: hiedra — plant of the genus Hedera
- Spanish: yedra — plant of the genus Hedera
- Swahili: mwefeu — plant of the genus Hedera
- Swahili: lablabu — plant of the genus Hedera
- Swedish: murgröna — plant of the genus Hedera
- Turkish: sarmaşık — plant of the genus Hedera
- Ukrainian: плющ (pljušč) — plant of the genus Hedera
- Venetan: èłera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Venetan: ènera — plant of the genus Hedera
- Venetan: èrena — plant of the genus Hedera
- Venetan: èrna — plant of the genus Hedera
- Venetan: èroła — plant of the genus Hedera
- Vietnamese: thường xuân — plant of the genus Hedera
- Volapük: hed — plant of the genus Hedera
- Welsh: iorwg — plant of the genus Hedera
- Welsh: eiddew — plant of the genus Hedera
- Finnish: köynnös — similar plant
- Japanese: 蔦 (tsuta) — similar plant