LEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ley mean? 

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

1. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

grazing land; lea; ley; pasture; pastureland

Hypernyms ("ley" is a kind of...):

grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ley"):

common land; commons (a pasture subject to common use)

cow pasture (a pasture for cows)

Holonyms ("ley" is a part of...):

country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)