Meaning of Lea | Babel Free
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Initialism of law enforcement agency. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- An open field, meadow, pasture.
- A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
- An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.
- A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
- Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
- Initialism of local education authority.
- A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
- A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
- Initialism of local electoral area.
- A village and civil parish in south-east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6521).
- A village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4930).
- A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286).
- A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586).
- A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, merged into Doddington and District civil parish in 2023.
Equivalents
Examples
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”
“19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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