leonid

UK /ˈliː.ə.nɪd/ US /ˈliː.ə.nɪd/

noun 1name 1

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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).

Collocations

ADJ.

alone, planned, still

VERB + LEONID

house

LEONID + NOUN

condition, door, grandfather, leukemia, rima, s, ticket

PREP.

from, in

ADV.

always

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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.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

I 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

Wiktionary

Oleg still swears that the man who attempted to break into his house was Leonid.

Tatoeba · #11849655

Leonid opened the door and startled Rima.

Tatoeba · #11851364

Leonid planned to visit Rima at the hospital.

Tatoeba · #11851365

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