What does "leigh" mean?
A meadow.
Leigh
/liː/ name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A meadow.
- Grammar: leigh is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: clearing, family name, lea, meadow.
- Useful contrasts: built environment, city, given name.
- Usage evidence: Leigh will go to the shopping centre with Laurie.
How to use "leigh"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A meadow. archaic
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee.
- 2 A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- 3 A unisex given name transferred from the surname.; A female given name, Female equivalent of Lee. UK
- 4 A number of places in England:; A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6500).
- 5 A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in Dorset (OS grid ref ST6108).
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- 6 A number of places in England:; The Leigh, a hamlet and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8626).
- 7 A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5446). Former spelling: Lyghe.
- 8 A number of places in England:; A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, which includes Church Leigh, Lower Leigh and Upper Leigh.
- 9 A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2246).
- 10 A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in north Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0692).
- 11 A number of places in England:; A small village and civil parish (served by Leigh and Bransford Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7853).
Synonyms
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Example
"Leigh will go to the shopping centre with Laurie."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "leigh"?
Common synonyms include: clearing, family name, lea, meadow, pasture, placename component.
How do you use "leigh" in a sentence?
Leigh will go to the shopping centre with Laurie.
How do you pronounce "leigh"?
Pronounced /liː/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) 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 (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.
Etymology 2
From the nominative case of Old English lēah (“wood, meadow”), 'dweller by the wood or clearing'.