lea
see also: Lea, LEA
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /liː/, /leɪ/
Noun

lea (plural leas)

  1. An open field, meadow.
    • 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
      The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
      The low#Etymology_3|lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
      The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
      And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
    • XIX century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance
      Two children in two neighbor villages
      Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Translations
  • Russian: луг
  • Spanish: campo
Noun

lea (plural leas)

  1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards.
    Synonyms: lay
  2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Lea
Proper noun
  1. A female given name, form of Leah.
Proper noun
  1. Surname, a variant of Lee.
Proper noun
  1. A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.

LEA
Noun

lea (plural leas)

  1. (UK, education) Initialism of local education authority
  2. Initialism of law enforcement agent



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