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lei

/leɪ/

lei noun: a garland of flowers in Hawaii. Also the plural of leu.

Noun (1)

lei (plural leis)

  1. A garland of flowers in Hawaii.
    • Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades...2013 August 30, Kat Kinsman, “Something borrowed: Wedding traditions from around the world”, in CNN

Noun (2) capitalized: LEI

LEI (plural LEIs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Legal Entity Identifier, a unique global identifier for legal entities participating in financial transactions.

Proper noun capitalized: Lei

Lei (plural Leis)

  1. A surname from Chinese.

Also used as

lei is also the plural of leu.

lei meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Telugu and Punjabi

lei in Tamil

லேய்

lei in Marathi

लेई

lei in Telugu

లేయ్

lei in Punjabi

ਲੀਏ
More languagesFewer languages
lei in Nepali
लेइ
lei in Tagalog
ley

Forms of lei

Noun
pluralleis
pluralLEIs
Proper noun
pluralLeis

Plural of lei: leis

Origin of lei

Borrowed from Hawaiian lei.

Borrowed from Romanian lei.

Borrowed from Chinese 雷 (léi).

Words formed from lei

Phrases with lei

Words that rhyme with lei

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about lei

What does lei mean?
Lei means a garland of flowers in Hawaii.
What is lei in Tamil?
Lei in Tamil is லேய். See Lei meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lei?
Lei can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lei?
Lei is pronounced /leɪ/.
What is the plural of lei?
The plural of lei is leis.

Words near lei in the dictionary

  1. Lehtinen
  2. Lehtinens
  3. Lehto
  4. lehua
  5. lehuas
  6. lei
  7. Lei Day
  8. Lei Yue Mun
  9. Lei-chou
  10. Lei.
  11. Leia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lei (page history and authors); LEI (page history and authors); Lei (page history and authors); lei (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lei (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lei (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lei (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lei (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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