lea
pronunciation
How to pronounce lea in British English:
UK [li:]
How to pronounce lea in American English:
US [li]
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- Noun:
- a unit of length of thread or yarn
- a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
Word Origin
- lea (n.)
- Old English leah "open field, meadow, piece of untilled ground," earlier læch, recorded in place names, from Proto-Germanic *laukhaz (cognates: Old High German loh "cluster of bushes," and probably also Flemish -loo, which forms the second element in Waterloo), from PIE *louquo- (cognates: Sanskrit lokah "open space," Latin lucus "grove," Lithuanian laukas "open field"), perhaps from or related to *leuk- "to shine, be bright" (see light (n.)).
Example
- 1. God is sure good to me to put lea in my life .
- 2. I share every password with lea ...... from my facebook account to every email address I have .
- 3. A notable feature of the desiccation response of plants is the number and diversity of hydrophilic lea proteins synthesised in response to desiccation .
- 4. Lea often told him that she couldn 't feel her body .
- 5. Laban is the father of rachel and lea .