Noun: chive
| Singular | chive |
| Plural | chives |
Sample Sentences
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Chive herb. (attributive use)
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What a splendid pie, pizza-pizza pie / Every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy / Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms, olive, chives [2002, “Chic 'n' Stu”, in Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian (lyrics), Daron Malakian (music), Steal This Album!, performed by System of a Down, Track 1:]
Nouns inflected like chive
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
From Middle English chive~cyve, from Old French chive~cive, from Latin cēpa (“onion”). See: Middle English Nouns '
cyve', Latin Nouns '
cēpa'.
Verbs referencing "chive"
Spanish Nouns
cebolla, Spanish Nouns
cebollino.