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leeds

/liːdz/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables
leeds
IPA
/liːdz/
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

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A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.

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A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England, the site of Leeds Castle (OS grid ref TQ8252).

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Example Sentences

Etymology

* The large city in West Yorkshire is from Old English Loidis, from Latin *Lādenses, most likely based on an early river-name derived from Proto-Celtic *lāto (“rut, heat”) (cf. Welsh llawd (“heat, ardour”)). * The village in Kent is from Middle English Hledes, probably from a stream-name.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Loidis, *Lādenses, *lāto, Hledes

Phrases

Leeds and the Thousand Islands New Leeds North Leeds United Counties of Leeds and Grenville

Frequently Paired Words

Leodensian Loiner

Rhymes With

needs leads seeds reads proceeds speeds feeds deeds beads breeds exceeds weeds

Questions

How do you pronounce leeds?
The recorded pronunciation is /liːdz/.
What does leeds mean?
A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
Where does leeds come from?
It is traced to Old English.

How to pronounce leeds

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