Le
article, name, noun, prep, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of law enforcement. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
"LE seized the package."
- 2 a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints) wordnet
- 3 Initialism of limited edition. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 4 Initialism of luxury edition. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 1 the humorous, informal
"Le mew. Le purr."
- 1 Next to, near (still used in some place names). obsolete
"Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham near an old Roman road."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"For further details, call Gisèle."
Etymology
Borrowed from French le (“the”). Popularized especially by the expression le sigh.
borrowed from Old French lez (“side”).
* As a Chinese surname: ** Mandarin form of the surname 樂 /乐, ** Mandarin form of the surname 勒, ** variant of Li, ** variant Romanization of the surname 呂 /吕 (lǚ), compare Lu. * As a Vietnamese surname, variant of Lê and Lệ.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.