LEONARD

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• LEONARD (noun)
  The noun LEONARD has 1 sense:

1. United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925)

  Familiarity information: LEONARD used as a noun is very rare.

• LEONARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dutch Leonard; Elmore John Leonard; Elmore Leonard; Leonard

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

The fasting-like diet promotes the growth of new insulin-producing pancreatic cells that reduce symptoms of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in mice, according to the study on mice and human cells led by Valter Longo, director of the Longevity Institute at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

(Fasting-Mimicking Diet May Reverse Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

That night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium—ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of Beaulieu.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St. Leonard's, they had all turned their steps homewards.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)