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Leonid

noun
/ˈliː.ə.nɪd/

Etymology

Borrowed from Macedonian and Russian Леони́д (Leoníd) or Ukrainian Леоні́д (Leoníd), from Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας (Leōnídas). Cognate with the English historical name Leonidas.

  1. derived from Λεωνίδας
  2. borrowed from Леоні́д
  3. borrowed from Леони́д

Definitions

  1. Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in…

    Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November.

    • I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries.
    • Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

  2. A male given name, a transliteration of a common East Slavic name (notably that of the…

    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).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA