leal
pronunciation
How to pronounce leal in British English:
UK [liːl]
How to pronounce leal in American English:
US ['lil]
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- Adjective:
- faithful and true
Word Origin
- leal (adj.)
- "loyal, faithful, honest, true," c. 1300, lele, surviving from Middle English as Northern English and Scottish form of loyal. The Land of the leal is Heaven, not Scotland.
Example
- 1. That omission has just been corrected by manuel leal and brian powell of duke university , in north carolina-and the result is intriguing .
- 2. Having established that lizards are at least as clever as birds at such simple tasks , dr leal hopes to go on and explore the evolutionary forces behind lizard intelligence .
- 3. Guilherme leal , who owns natura , a big cosmetics firm , and is one of brazil 's richest men , is considering a request to be her running mate .
- 4. In a paper published in biology letters dr leal and dr powell suggest that lizards are at least as intelligent as tits , a group of birds that has been well examined in this respect .
- 5. Eg. religious believers dream about a new happy life in the land of the leal .