lea

FREQ #10817

n. 草地

发音

/liː/
/leɪ/

词形变化

leas 复数

别名

leigh ley lay

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An open field, meadow, pasture.

    19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;

  2. 1.

    Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).

  3. 2.

    A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

pasture ley pastureland

上位词 1

grassland

下位词 2

commons common land

部分词 2

yard pace

整体词 1

country

相关短语

Lea County Lea Green Lea Hall Lea Marston Lea Bridge Lea and Cleverton Dethick, Lea and Holloway Halton Lea Gate Tissington and Lea Hall Albert Lea Doe Lea Russell Lea Rosie Lee

词源

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).

来源：wiktionary