name
Meaning 1
A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
lea
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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rhymes with -iːə
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/liː/
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/leɪ/
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homophone: lee
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homophone: Lee
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homophone: Leigh
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CMU ARPABET: L IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.
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name
Meaning 3
A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
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Meaning 4
A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
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Meaning 5
A village and civil parish in south-east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6521).
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Meaning 6
A village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4930).
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Meaning 7
A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286).
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Meaning 8
A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586).
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Meaning 9
A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, merged into Doddington and District civil parish in 2023.
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noun
Meaning 10
An open field, meadow, pasture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
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noun
Meaning 11
Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
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Synonyms: rap
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noun
Meaning 12
A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
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noun
Meaning 13
Initialism of law enforcement agency.
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Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Meaning 14
Initialism of local education authority.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, Wales, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Topics: education
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noun
Meaning 15
Initialism of local electoral area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Meaning 16
a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pasture, pastureland, grazing land, ley
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Broader terms: grassland
Narrower terms: commons, common land, cow pasture
noun
Meaning 17
a unit of length of thread or yarn
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Broader terms: linear unit, linear measure
History
Etymology
From Old English lēa, the dative case of lēah (“meadow”).
Inherited from Old English Lyġe.
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).
From Middle English le, lee, ley, of uncertain origin. Compare Old French lier (“to bind”), Old French laisse (“leash, cord”), Old French lïace, lïaz (“bundle”).
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: ливада (livada) — open field, meadow, pasture
- Czech: louka — open field, meadow, pasture
- Finnish: niitty — open field, meadow, pasture
- French: prairie — open field, meadow, pasture
- Galician: campo — open field, meadow, pasture
- Galician: campa — open field, meadow, pasture
- Hebrew: אָחוּ (ákhu) — open field, meadow, pasture
- Hungarian: rét — open field, meadow, pasture
- Hungarian: mező — open field, meadow, pasture
- Hungarian: gyep — open field, meadow, pasture
- Hungarian: legelő — open field, meadow, pasture
- Latin: prātum — open field, meadow, pasture
- Persian: راود (râvad) — open field, meadow, pasture
- Polish: błonie — open field, meadow, pasture
- Portuguese: campo — open field, meadow, pasture
- Romanian: pășune — open field, meadow, pasture
- Romanian: pajiște — open field, meadow, pasture
- Russian: луг (lug) — open field, meadow, pasture
- Scottish Gaelic: bàn-talamh — open field, meadow, pasture
- Spanish: campo — open field, meadow, pasture
- Ukrainian: луг (luh) — open field, meadow, pasture