Fife

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From Scottish Gaelic Fìobha, said to date back to the eponym Fib, one of the seven sons of the legendary Pictish king Cruithne.^[1] From Scottish Gaelic fiùbhaidh (“hero, valiant warrior”) from fiù (“worth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪf/
• Rhymes: -aɪf

Fife

1. A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 993:

     Ross: Will you to Scone?
     Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.

2. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
3. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, named after Fife in Scotland.
   2. An unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, named after the owner of the village site.
   3. A city in Pierce County, Washington, possibly named after William J. Fife.
4. A surname.

• Fifeshire (older usage)

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