CLIVE

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• CLIVE (noun)
  The noun CLIVE has 1 sense:

1. British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)

  Familiarity information: CLIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CLIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Baron Clive; Baron Clive of Plassey; Clive; Robert Clive

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

 Context examples 

“At this temperature, the lava would freeze,” said lead author Dr Clive Oppenheimer, from Cambridge’s Department of Geography.

(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Look at Clive—just a clerk, and he conquered India!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)