Ife

[ ee-fey ]

noun

1. a town in SW Nigeria.
2. a male or female given name: from a Yoruba word meaning “love.”

Ife

/ ˈiːfɪ /

noun

1. a town in W central Nigeria: one of the largest and oldest Yoruba towns; university (1961); centre of the cocoa trade. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Ife e nombur at ou hast write be an Articul, write first a cifre & aftur e cifer write an Articulle us.

From Project Gutenberg

The present-day pious Yoruba consults the replica of boards which were found in Ife, and which were thousands of years old.

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From the Aitizzarts and the Cayuquets, particularly the former, the best Ife-whaw and in the greatest quantities was obtained.

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