Leonid
noun
any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
Leonides
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pluralof Leonid.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The epigrams on Leonides and on Marathon are well known.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Leonides had a son named Origen, whom he had brought up very carefully, and had taught to get some part of the Bible by heart every day.
From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson
Leonides, however, still sticks to his favourite "at present."
From Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
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
