ava

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of kava.

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

   1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bottle Imp

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

   1859, James Finlay Weir Johnston, The Chemistry of Common Life

1. A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.

   Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.

   1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, W.S.Bryan, page 57

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   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.

   2004, Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5

2. A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.
3. A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.
4. A locale in the United States.
   1. A city in Illinois.
   2. A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Missouri.
   3. An unincorporated community in Alabama.
   4. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
   5. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

alternative Awa · alternative Inwa · alternative Innwa

1. historicalAn abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.
2. A town and hamlet therein, in Oneida County, New York, United States; named for the Kingdom of Ava.

plural AVAs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebeveragesInitialism 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.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableanatomyInitialism of arteriovenous anastomosis.