leonid
Collocations
5ADJ.
alone, planned, still
VERB + LEONID
house
LEONID + NOUN
condition, door, grandfather, leukemia, rima, s, ticket
PREP.
from, in
ADV.
always
Definitions
noun
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.
name
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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6I 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.
WiktionaryNight 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.
WiktionaryI was surprised by […] the unusually tall windows, […] through which long telescopes were once turned on eclipses of the sun and the moon, on the intersections of the orbits of the stars with the line
WiktionaryOleg still swears that the man who attempted to break into his house was Leonid.
Tatoeba · #11849655Leonid opened the door and startled Rima.
Tatoeba · #11851364Leonid planned to visit Rima at the hospital.
Tatoeba · #11851365