Leonid
Americannoun
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Leonids,
plural
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Leonides
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Leonid
1875–80; < New Latin Leonidēs, equivalent to Latin Leōn- (stem of Leō ) Leo + -idēs -id 1
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“This is my last ride for today,” says 66-year-old driver Leonid Terpyak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Most of those killed and missing were young women born between 2003 and 2008, according to a list of casualties published by the Moscow-backed governor of occupied Lugansk, Leonid Pasechnik.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
In the early 1980s, however, the leaders of the two superpowers of that time, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev and President Ronald Reagan, teamed up to drive a knife through that particular fantasy.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2025
Initially overjoyed to find him, they now worry about his health: Leonid has paranoid schizophrenia, managed with medication.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
And it was personal—one of Khrushchev’s own sons, Leonid, was killed in the war.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
The 10-year-old kept running out of wreaths and had to ask his father, Leonides Magallonmata, an Army drill sergeant, to return to the truck to get more.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
Book, under name of Andrew, by Naxochristes and Leonides.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
The persecutors were not content with killing Leonides, but seized on all his property, so that the widow was left in great distress, with seven children, of whom Origen was the eldest.
From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson
Leonides, the father of Origen, was one of those Christians who had not fled from the persecution.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
With regard to cancer, he quotes from Archigenes and Leonides.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
The Leonids are an annual event and can be seen from the start of November until 2 December.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
In ideal conditions, the Leonids may produce about 15 meteors per hour in 2024.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2024
They also show up on balmy summer nights, as opposed to the Leonids and Geminids, which arrive in November and December, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
The Leonids are famous for occasionally producing meteor storms.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
In about thirty-six million-miles, three weeks after the Leonids, Julia Bishop is coming to visit for her Thanksgiving break from school.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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