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Leigh Moderate

Leigh has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

English film actress (1913-1967)

"The biopic focused on the life of leigh, highlighting her iconic roles in classic British cinema during the 1940s and 50s."

2

A meadow.

"The children played happily in the leigh where wildflowers bloomed all summer long."

Proper Noun
1

A surname, from Middle English, variant of Lee.

"The Leigh family has lived in that village for three generations under their well-known surname."

Related Terms

Origin

The word leigh comes from the Old English term for a clearing in a forest or an open piece of ground. It traveled into modern usage to describe such wooded clearings and is related to many other Germanic words meaning meadow or grove.

Rhyming Words
igh high yigh tigh migh nigh sigh righ weigh neigh thigh bligh heigh haigh tonigh besigh sleigh aweigh neligh abeigh
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