Noun: reeve
| Singular | reeve |
| Plural | reeves |
Sample Sentences
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His first convert was the reeve of the city of Lincoln called Blæcca, ... [1999, Bede, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 99:]
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A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Reeve”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority. [1936, The Periodical, volumes 21-22, Oxford University Press, page 67:]
Nouns inflected like reeve
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English reve, from Old English rēfa, an aphetism of ġerēfa (also grœ̄fa), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf.
2. The role, and eventually the word, was mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin. See: Middle English Nouns '
reve', Old English Nouns '
rēfa', Danish Nouns '
greve', Swedish Nouns '
greve', Dutch Nouns '
graaf', German Nouns '
Graf'.
Verbs referencing "reeve"
Swedish Nouns
greve.