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leet

/liːt/

leet noun: a portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. Also the simple past of let.

Noun (1)

leet (plural leets)

  1. (Scotland) A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.

Noun (2)

leet (plural leets)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.

Noun (3)

leet (plural leets)

  1. (UK) The European pollock.
    • The whiting pollock sometimes, par excellence is styled pollock only. On the Yorkshire coast it is called a leet, and in Scotland a lythe.1854, William Hughes, A Practical Treatise on the Choice and Cookery of Fish, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, page 27

Noun (4)

leet (plural leets)

  1. (obsolete) A place where roads meet or cross; intersection

Adjective

leet (comparative leeter, superlative leetest)

  1. Of or relating to leetspeak.
  2. (slang) Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.
  3. (slang) Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.
  4. (slang) Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.
    • Powered by leetness! You can have the leetest hardware imaginable in your gaming rig, but it won't matter if you run it with a cheap power supply.2006, Maximum PC (Autumn, page 26)

Noun (5) capitalized: LEET

IPA/ˈliːt/

LEET (plural LEETs)

  1. A person who is looking for employment, education, or training (but not currently in any of them).

Proper noun capitalized: Leet

Leet (plural Leets)

  1. A surname from Old English.

Also used as

leet is also the simple past of let.

leet is also the alternative form of leat.

leet is also the abbreviation of leetspeak.

Forms of leet

Noun
pluralleets
alternative form1337
alternative formeleet
alternative formel337
alternative forml33t
alternative form31337
alternative form3l33t
pluralLEETs
Adjective
comparativeleeter
superlativeleetest
Proper noun
pluralLeets
alternative formLeete

Origin of leet

From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.

From Old English lēt, past tense of lǣtan (“to let”).

Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English lete (“meeting”), from Anglo-Norman lete and Medieval Latin leta (Anglo-Latin), possibly from Old English ġelǣte (“crossroads”).

Words formed from leet

Words that rhyme with leet

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Questions about leet

What does leet mean?
Leet means a portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.
What part of speech is leet?
Leet can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce leet?
Leet is pronounced /liːt/.
What is the plural of leet?
The plural of leet is leets.

Words near leet in the dictionary

  1. Leesport
  2. Leesville
  3. Leeswood
  4. Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
  5. leesy
  6. leet
  7. Leete
  8. leeter
  9. Leetes
  10. leetest
  11. Leeth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leet (page history and authors); LEET (page history and authors); Leet (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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