Lionel

[ lahy-uh-nl ]

noun

1. a male given name, form of Leon.

Example Sentences

While MLS and its Apple broadcast partners were deeply invested in Lionel Messi leading Inter Miami to the MLS Cup, parity has again leveled the field.

From Los Angeles Times

This time it was Atlanta United, the lowest seed in the 18-team playoff field, a team that has played the last five months with an interim coach and one with a payroll less than half the size of Miami’s, who delivered the fatal blow, beating Lionel Messi’s team Saturday in the deciding game of a best-of-three, first-round playoff series.

From Los Angeles Times

After showing a talent for arranging songs while touring the world with Lionel Hampton's big band, he was soon in demand in that capacity, too.

From BBC

Jones used his winning formula in the 1980s with George Benson, Donna Summer and Patti Austin, and produced the decade's best-selling single when Jackson and Lionel Richie assembled 35 of America's biggest names for the 1985 charity song We Are the World.

From BBC

The multi-talented musician and producer rose to success after graduating from Berklee College of Music, in Boston, and becoming a trumpet player in bands for the jazz titans Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie in the '50s.

From Salon