Aviv
Americannoun
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Chiefly Biblical. a former name for Nisan, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
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the season of spring in the Jewish year.
Etymology
Origin of Aviv
First recorded in 1525–35; from Hebrew āvīv, literally, “ear of barley”
Example Sentences
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At Roche’s Genentech, computational biologist Aviv Regev has built what she calls a “lab in the loop.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Policymakers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv look past the public-relations campaigns around the Syrian president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Aviv reports on Filipina women who move to the United States to work as nannies and send money home to their families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Aviv describes becoming sane as “a kind of narrative collapse, a confrontation with a personal history that is no longer recognizable.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Private radio with a direct line to London, New York, Tel Aviv and many other stations.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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