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leys

leys is the plural of ley.

Meaning of ley

Noun (1)

ley (plural leys)

  1. Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
  2. A ley line.
    • For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic

Noun (2)

ley

  1. (obsolete) Law.

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Phrases with leys

Questions about leys

What is leys the plural of?
Leys is the plural of ley.

Words near leys in the dictionary

  1. leyn
  2. leyned
  3. Leyner
  4. leyning
  5. leyns
  6. leys
  7. Leysdown
  8. Leysdown-on-Sea
  9. Leyshon
  10. Leysmill
  11. Leyte

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leys (page history and authors); ley (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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