Leonid

[ lee-uh-nid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Astronomy.

, plural Le·o·nids, Le·on·i·des [lee-, on, -i-deez].

any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.

Leonid

/ ˈliːənɪd /

any member of a meteor shower that is usually insignificant, but more spectacular every 33 years, and occurs annually in mid-November, appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo

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Origin of Leonid¹

1875–80; < New Latin Leonidēs, equivalent to Latin Leōn- (stem of Leō ) Leo + -idēs -id ¹

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Origin of Leonid¹

C19: from New Latin Leōnidēs, from leō lion

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Leonid, the owner of the hotel, whom we had met in the restaurant the night before, was fuming.

She also squared off against then-President Leonid Kuchma, who fired her and supposedly did his best to destroy her fortune.

It was Tkachev who introduced Akhmed to Leonid Tyagachev, president of the Olympics Committee.

Alex Jones is a representative Second Amendment enthusiast in the same way that Leonid Brezhnev is an archetypal progressive.

The Leonid system of meteorites did not always move in a closed orbit round our sun.

Leonid Andreyevitch had only fifteen thousand roubles, and Deriganov offered thirty thousand on top of the mortgage to begin with.

Leonid Shvernik was even given a promotion on the strength of his so ably cracking the American market.

By this time Paul was familiar with the security measures taken by Leonid Shvernik and the others.

At his side sat Leonid Plekhanov and behind them the other six members of their team.

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