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
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
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
I also see a great deal of Epicrates the leading man at Athens, and Leonides, and people of that sort.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
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
