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leigh

/ˈliː/

leigh noun: a meadow.

Noun

leigh (plural leighs)

  1. (archaic) A meadow.

Proper noun capitalized: Leigh

IPA/liː/

Leigh

  1. A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee.
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
    1. (UK) A female given name, Female equivalent of Lee.
  3. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6500).
  4. A village and civil parish in Dorset (OS grid ref ST6108).
  5. The Leigh, a hamlet and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8626).
  6. A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5446). Former spelling: Lyghe.
  7. A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, which includes Church Leigh, Lower Leigh and Upper Leigh.
  8. A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2246).
  9. A village and civil parish in north Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0692).
  10. A small village and civil parish (served by Leigh and Bransford Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7853).

leigh meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati

leigh in Bengali

লেই

leigh in Malayalam

ലെയ്

leigh in Kannada

ಲೇಘ್

leigh in Gujarati

લેઇ
More languagesFewer languages
leigh in Odia
ଲେଇ

Forms of leigh

Noun
pluralleighs
alternative formlea
alternative formley
alternative form-leigh
alternative form-ley
alternative form-ly
Proper noun
alternative formLee

Origin of leigh

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.

From the nominative case of Old English lēah (“wood, meadow”), 'dweller by the wood or clearing'.

Words formed from leigh

Phrases with leigh

Words that rhyme with leigh

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Questions about leigh

What does leigh mean?
Leigh means a meadow.
What is leigh in Bengali?
Leigh in Bengali is লেই. See Leigh meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is leigh?
Leigh can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce leigh?
Leigh is pronounced /ˈliː/.
What is the plural of leigh?
The plural of leigh is leighs.

Words near leigh in the dictionary

  1. Leifheit
  2. Leifheits
  3. leifite
  4. leiger
  5. leigers
  6. leigh
  7. Leigh Creek
  8. Leigh Delamere
  9. Leigh disease
  10. Leigh syndrome
  11. Leigh-on-Sea

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: leigh (page history and authors); Leigh (page history and authors); leigh (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); leigh (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); leigh (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); leigh (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); leigh (Odia, 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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