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leasure

leasure is the obsolete spelling of leisure.

leasure is the misspelling of leisure.

Meaning of leisure

Noun

leisure (countable and uncountable, plural leisures)

  1. Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
  2. Free time, time free from work or duties.
    • The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.1672, William Temple, An Essay Upon the Original and Nature of Government
  3. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
    • He sigh'd, and had no leisure more to say.1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Leasure

Leasure (plural Leasures)

  1. A surname.

Forms of leasure

pluralLeasures

Questions about leasure

What does leasure mean?
Leasure means a surname.
What is leasure the obsolete spelling of?
Leasure is the obsolete spelling of leisure.
What part of speech is leasure?
Leasure is a proper noun.

Words near leasure in the dictionary

  1. leastest
  2. leastness
  3. leasts
  4. leastways
  5. leastwise
  6. leasure
  7. leasurely
  8. Leasures
  9. leasy
  10. leat
  11. Leath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leasure (page history and authors); Leasure (page history and authors); leisure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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