Leonid
[lee-uh-nid]
- any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
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Origin of Leonid
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Contemporary Examples
Leonid, the owner of the hotel, whom we had met in the restaurant the night before, was fuming.
She also squared off against then-President Leonid Kuchma, who fired her and supposedly did his best to destroy her fortune.
It was Tkachev who introduced Akhmed to Leonid Tyagachev, president of the Olympics Committee.
Alex Jones is a representative Second Amendment enthusiast in the same way that Leonid Brezhnev is an archetypal progressive.
Historical Examples
Leonid Plekhanov stared at his second in command, wet his thick lips.
AdaptationDallas McCord Reynolds
"Leonid Plekhanov is no longer with us," Chessman said dourly.
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And there was even Leonid Shvernik and some of the others of the underground.
RevolutionDallas McCord Reynolds
Leonid Andreyev is the youngest and at the present time the most powerful dramatist of Russia.
The Social Significance of the Modern DramaEmma Goldman
Preparations are already making for a more complete observation of the Leonid meteoric shower expected in 1899.
Leonid
- any member of a meteor shower that is usually insignificant, but more spectacular every 33 years, and occurs annually in mid-November, appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo
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Word Origin
C19: from New Latin Leōnidēs, from leō lion
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