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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lea has 2 senses
- lea(n = noun.quantity) Array - a unit of length of thread or yarn; Array is a kind of linear measure, linear unit
- lea(n = noun.location) grazing land, ley, pasture, pastureland - a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock; Array has particulars: common land, commons, cow pasture
has parts: pace, yard
is a kind of grassland
is a part of country, rural area
CIDE DICTIONARY
A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay. [1913 Webster]
lea, n. [OE. ley, lay, As. leáh, leá; akin to Prov. G. lon bog, morass, grove, and perh. to L. lucus grove, E. light, n. ].
A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
lea, abbr. (in the UK) Local Education Authority.
lea, n. poet. a piece of meadow or pasture or arable land.
Etymology
OE lea(h) f. Gmc
THESAURUS
lea
campo, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, llano, mead, meadow, meadow land, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, prairie, range, savanna, steppe, steppeland, swale, vega, veldROGET THESAURUS
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Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.Plain
N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.
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