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say it: AHN-klayv
enclave is a noun meaning "an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it". It carries one recorded sense.
an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for enclave come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.