adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to leetspeak.
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Standard Lemma guide
leet
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/liːt/
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homophone: Leith (th-stopping)
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/ˈliːt/
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CMU ARPABET: L IY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.
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Usage: slang
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adj
Meaning 3
Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.
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Usage: slang
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adj
Meaning 4
Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.
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Usage: slang
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name
Meaning 5
A surname from Old English.
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noun
Meaning 6
A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 7
A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.
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Usage: UK, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 8
The European pollock.
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Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 9
A place where roads meet or cross; intersection
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 10
Alternative form of leat (“watercourse”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 11
Abbreviation of leetspeak.
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Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, dated, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 12
A person who is looking for employment, education, or training (but not currently in any of them).
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verb
Meaning 13
simple past of let
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Usage: form-of, obsolete, past
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History
Etymology
Apheretic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.
Topographic surname for someone who lived near a road junction, from Old English ġelǣte (“intersection, crossroads”).
From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.
Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English lete (“meeting”), from Anglo-Norman lete and Medieval Latin leta (Anglo-Latin), possibly from Old English ġelǣte (“crossroads”).
Jamieson mentions the alternative spellings lyth, lythe, laid, and laith, and connects it to a verb lythe (“to shelter”), as it "is frequently caught ... in deep holes among the rocks".
From Middle English lete, from Old English ġelǣt, ġelǣte, from Proto-Germanic *galētą, *lētą. More at leat.
Modelled on NEET.
From Old English lēt, past tense of lǣtan (“to let”).
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: hervorragend — expert, masterful
- German: toll — expert, masterful