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leeds

/liːdz/

leeds is the plural of leed.

Meaning of leed

Noun (1)

leed (plural leeds)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
  2. (Scotland) A national tongue (contra a foreign language).
  3. (Scotland) The speech of a person, echelon of persons, or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.

Noun (2)

leed (plural leeds)

  1. A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
  2. A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
  3. Patter; rigmarole.

Proper noun capitalized: Leeds

Leeds

  1. A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
    • An emaciated 18-year-old man who died in his Leeds home had the lowest body mass index (BMI) an experienced dietitian had ever seen, a court heard.
    • Jordan Burling died after going into cardiac arrest in the lounge of his house in Farnley, Leeds, in June 2016.2018 June 14, “Jordan Burling death: Teen had 'lowest BMI doctor had seen'”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2023
  2. A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England, the site of Leeds Castle (OS grid ref TQ8252).
  3. A city in Jefferson County, St. Clair County and Shelby County, Alabama.
  4. A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
  5. A village in the city of Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  6. A township in Murray County, Minnesota.
  7. A neighborhood of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
  8. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Catskill, Greene County, New York.
  9. A minor city and township in Benson County, North Dakota.
  10. A small town in Washington County, Utah.
  11. A small town and unincorporated community therein, in Columbia County, Wisconsin.

Origin of leeds

* 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.

Words formed from leeds

Words that rhyme with leeds

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Questions about leeds

What does leeds mean?
Leeds means a large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
What is leeds the plural of?
Leeds is the plural of leed.
What part of speech is leeds?
Leeds is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce leeds?
Leeds is pronounced /liːdz/.

Words near leeds in the dictionary

  1. leed
  2. Leederman
  3. Leedham
  4. Leedom
  5. Leedoms
  6. leeds
  7. Leeds and the Thousand Islands
  8. Leedy
  9. Leedys
  10. leef
  11. leefang

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: leeds (page history and authors); Leeds (page history and authors); leed (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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