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/lə//leɪ/US

Etymology

* As a Chinese surname: ** Mandarin form of the surname 樂 /乐, ** Mandarin form of the surname 勒, ** variant of Li, ** variant Romanization of the surname 呂 /吕 (lǚ), compare Lu. * As a Vietnamese surname, variant of Lê and Lệ.

Definitions

  1. the

    • Le mew. Le purr.
    • Waiter: 'Bonjour! I am le waiter on this ship! [...] Ah! Le strong silent type!'
    • […]upon arrival, le girlfriend realizes she has left her ID back at my house (a 1 1/2 hour roundtrip on the Metro), […]

  2. Next to, near (still used in some place names).

    • Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham near an old Roman road.
    • Dalton-le-Dale, Hetton-le-Hole, Witton-le-Wear

  3. Initialism of law enforcement.

    • LE seized the package.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Initialism of limited edition.

    2. Initialism of luxury edition.

    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

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