Leon
['li:,ɒn] or ['li,ɑn]
Definition
(noun.) a city in central Mexico.
(noun.) a city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains.
(noun.) a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
Editor: Verna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A lion.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- The phonograph is in reality a development of the phonautograph, which was an instrument invented by Leon Scott in 1857 to automatically record sounds by diagrams. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Leon Bourgeois, insisted lucidly and repeatedly on the logical necessity of such powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One here and the other over the Alto del Leon near the Escorial. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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