1a former county on the North Sea coast of NE England, formed in 1974 from parts of Durham and North Yorkshire and replaced in 1996 by the unitary councils of Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, and Redcar and Cleveland.
2a major port and industrial city in NE Ohio, situated on Lake Erie; population 433,748 (2008).
Cleveland in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of Cleveland in the US English dictionary
