adj
Meaning 1
Made of leather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: leathern
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
leather
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɛðə/
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General-American: /ˈlɛðɚ/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈleðə/
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Scotland: /ˈlɛðəɾ/
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dialectal, obsolete: /ˈlʌðəɹ/
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rhymes with -ɛðə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: L EH1 DH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Meaning 3
Referring to an establishment of familial relations through agreed sexual or romantic deviance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier specifies otherwise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
A piece of the above used for polishing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A cricket ball or football.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, plural, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
A good defensive play
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
A punch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: boxing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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noun
Meaning 11
The skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, humorous, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 12
Clipping of fruit leather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To cover with leather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 14
To form a leathery surface (on).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
Meaning 15
To strike forcefully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- He leathered the ball all the way down the street.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 16
To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 17
an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: animal skin
Narrower terms: piece of leather, grain, alligator, buckskin, buff, ooze leather, Russia leather, calf, calfskin, white leather, whit leather, chamois, chamois leather, chammy, chammy leather, shammy, shammy leather, cordovan, cowhide, cowskin, crushed leather, crush, deerskin, doeskin, glove leather, horsehide, kid, kidskin, mocha, morocco, patent leather, pigskin, sheepskin, fleece, shoe leather, suede, suede leather, roan
verb
Meaning 18
whip with a leather strap
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *letrosbor. Proto-Germanic *leþrą Proto-West Germanic *leþr Old English leþer Middle English lether English leather From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro- (“skin, hide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leder (“leather”), West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”). Compare also English fell (“skin, hide, pelt”), film.
English surname, from the noun leather.
Across languages
Translations
193 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: جِلْدِيّ (jildiyy) — made of leather
- Belarusian: скураны́ (skuraný) — made of leather
- Bulgarian: ко́жен (kóžen) — made of leather
- Czech: kožený — made of leather
- Danish: læder- — made of leather
- Dutch: leren — made of leather
- Esperanto: leda — made of leather
- Faroese: leður- — made of leather
- Finnish: nahka- — made of leather
- Finnish: nahkainen — made of leather
- French: de cuir — made of leather
- Galician: de coiro — made of leather
- Georgian: ტყავის (ṭq̇avis) — made of leather
- German: ledern — made of leather
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (filleins) — made of leather
- Ancient Greek: βύρσινος (búrsinos) — made of leather
- Ancient Greek: δερμάτινος (dermátinos) — made of leather
- Ingrian: nahkain — made of leather
- Lithuanian: odinis — made of leather
- Macedonian: кожен (kožen) — made of leather
- Persian: چرمی (čarmi) — made of leather
- Polish: skórzany — made of leather
- Portuguese: de couro — made of leather
- Russian: ко́жаный (kóžanyj) — made of leather
- Serbo-Croatian: кожни — made of leather
- Serbo-Croatian: kožni — made of leather
- Slovak: kožený — made of leather
- Slovene: usnjen — made of leather
- Swahili: -a ngozi — made of leather
- Turkish: deri — made of leather
- Ukrainian: шкіряни́й (škirjanýj) — made of leather
- Yiddish: לעדערן (ledern) — made of leather
- Afrikaans: leer — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Albanian: lëkurë — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Southern Altai: кӧн (kön) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Southern Altai: јару (ǰaru) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Southern Altai: тере (tere) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Amharic: ቆዳ (ḳoda) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Arabic: جِلْد (jild) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Arabic: جلد (gild) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Armenian: կաշի (kaši) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Asturian: cueru — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Avestan: 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬨𐬀𐬥- — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Azerbaijani: dəri — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Azerbaijani: gön — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Bashkir: күн (kün) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Belarusian: ску́ра (skúra) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Bengali: চামড়া (camṛa) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Breton: lêr — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Bulgarian: ко́жа (kóža) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Burmese: သားရေ (sa:re) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Catalan: cuir — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Chamicuro: shama — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Cherokee: ᎦᏃᏥ (ganotsi) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Chinese Cantonese: 皮革 (pei4 gaak3, pei4 gaap3) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Chinese Cantonese: 皮 (pei4) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Chinese: пи (pi) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Chinese Mandarin: 皮革 (pígé) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Chinese Mandarin: 皮 (pí) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Cornish: ledher — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Czech: kůže — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Danish: læder — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Dutch: leer — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Dutch: leder — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Egyptian: ms-kA-F27 (mskꜣ) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Esperanto: ledo — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Estonian: nahk — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Faroese: leður — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Finnish: nahka — material produced by tanning animal skin
- French: cuir — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Galician: coiro — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Georgian: ტყავი (ṭq̇avi) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- German: Leder — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Greek: δέρμα (dérma) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Ancient Greek: βύρσα (búrsa) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Gujarati: ચર્મ (carma) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Gujarati: ચામડું (cāmḍũ) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Hebrew: עוֹר (or) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Hindi: चमड़ा (camṛā) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Hindi: चर्म (carm) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Hungarian: bőr — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Icelandic: leður — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Ido: ledro — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Indonesian: kulit — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Ingrian: nahka — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Interlingua: corio — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Irish: leathar — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Middle Irish: lethar — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Italian: cuoio — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Japanese: 皮革 (hikaku) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Japanese: 革 (kawa) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Japanese: レザー (rezā) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Kannada: ಚರ್ಮ (carma) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Karachay-Balkar: тери (teri) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Kazakh: тері (terı) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Kazakh: көн (kön) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Khmer: ស្បែក (sbaek) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Korean: 가죽 (gajuk) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Korean: 피혁 (pihyeok) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Korean: 레더 (redeo) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Northern Kurdish: çerm — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Kyrgyz: тери (teri) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Lao: ຫນັງ (nang) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Lao: ຫນັງສັດ (nang sat) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Latin: cutis — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Latin: corium — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Latin: alūta — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Latvian: āda — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Lithuanian: oda — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Macedonian: кожа (koža) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Malay: kulit — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Malayalam: തോൽ (tōl) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Malayalam: തുകൽ (tukal) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Maltese: ġilda — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Manx: lhiare — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Manx: liare — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Marathi: चामडे (cāmḍe) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Mauritian Creole: kwir — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Mauritian Creole: lapo — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Mongolian: савхи (savxi) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Mongolian: арьс (arʹs) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠪᠢᠬᠢ (sabiqi) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠠᠰᠤ (arasu) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Navajo: akał — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Nepali: छाला (chālā) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Norwegian Bokmål: lær — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lêr — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Occitan: cuèr — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Ojibwe: bashkwegin — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Church Slavic: кожа (koža) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Church Slavic: скора (skora) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Old East Slavic: кожа (koža) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Old East Slavic: скора (skora) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Old English: leþer — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Pashto: چرم (čarm) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Pashto: سختیان (saxtyãn) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Pashto: وژن (wẑǝn) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Iranian Persian: چَرْم (čarm) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Iranian Persian: جِلْد (jeld) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Polish: skóra — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Portuguese: couro — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Punjabi: ਚਮੜਾ (camṛā) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Quechua: qara — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Romanian: piele — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Romanian: piele de animal — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Russian: ко́жа (kóža) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Scottish Gaelic: leathar — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Serbo-Croatian: ко̏жа — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Serbo-Croatian: kȍža — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Sinhalese: සම් (sam) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Slovak: koža — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Slovene: usnje — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Spanish: cuero — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Spanish: antelina (faux) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Swahili: ngozi — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Swedish: läder — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Tagalog: katad — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Tajik: чарм (čarm) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Tajik: ҷилд (jild) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Tamil: தோல் (tōl) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Tarifit: irem — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Tatar: күн (kün) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Telugu: తోలు (tōlu) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Thai: หนัง (nǎng) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Tibetan: ཀོ་བ (ko ba) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Turkish: deri — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Turkmen: deri — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Turkmen: gön — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Turkmen: gaýyş — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Udmurt: ку (ku) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Ukrainian: шкі́ра (škíra) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Urdu: چَمْڑا (camṛā) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Urdu: چَرْم (carm) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Uyghur: تېرە (tëre) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Uyghur: خۇرۇم (xurum) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Uyghur: كۆن (kön) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Uzbek: charm — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Uzbek: teri — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Uzbek: koʻn — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Venetan: curame — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Venetan: curam — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Venetan: corame — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Vietnamese: da thuộc — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Vilamovian: łaoder — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Walloon: cur — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Welsh: lledr — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Yiddish: לעדער (leder) — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Zulu: isikhumba — material produced by tanning animal skin
- Finnish: säämiskä — piece of leather used for polishing
- Bulgarian: то́пка (tópka) — colloquial: cricket ball or football
- Finnish: nahkakuula — colloquial: cricket ball or football
- Hungarian: bőr — colloquial: cricket ball or football
- Finnish: nahkavaatteet — leather clothing
Real reading context