lea
see also: Lea, LEA
Pronunciation
Lea
Proper noun
LEA
Noun
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see also: Lea, LEA
Pronunciation
- IPA: /liː/, /leɪ/
lea (plural leas)
- 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;
- 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Russian: луг
- Spanish: campo
lea (plural leas)
- Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards.
- Synonyms: lay
- A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Lea
Proper noun
- A female given name, form of Leah.
- A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
LEA
Noun
lea (plural leas)
- (UK, education) Initialism of local education authority
- Initialism of law enforcement agent
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