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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A male given name, a transliteration of a common East Slavic name (notably that of the first two Ukrainian presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from Macedonian and Russian Леони́д (Leoníd) or Ukrainian Леоні́д (Leoníd), from Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας (Leōnídas). Cognate with the English historical name Leonidas.
From Latin Leō (“lion; the constellation Leo”, stem Leōn-) + -id.
