LEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lea mean? 

• LEA (noun)
  The noun LEA has 2 senses:

1. a unit of length of thread or yarn

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

  Familiarity information: LEA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of length of thread or yarn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

Meronyms (parts of "lea"):

pace; yard (a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride)

Sense 2

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 ("lea" 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 "lea"):

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

cow pasture (a pasture for cows)

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

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

 Context examples 

It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, "onding on snaw," canopied all; thence flakes felt it intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All the valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zig-zag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, the sombre woodland, the clear and sunny lea.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A picturesque track it was, by the way; lying along the side of the beck and through the sweetest curves of the dale: but that day I thought more of the letters, that might or might not be awaiting me at the little burgh whither I was bound, than of the charms of lea and water.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)