Leonid

English Etymology 1 +s From en la:Leō stem Leōn- lion; the constellation Leo -id. Pronunciation en /ˈliː.ə.nɪd/ Noun Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November. en 1974 w:Guy Davenport Tatlin! I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries. Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove. en 2001 WG Sebald w:Anthea Bell Austerlitz 141 Penguin 2011 I was surprised by […] the unusually tall windows, […] through which long telescopes were once turned on eclipses of the sun and the moon, on the intersections of the orbits of the stars with the line of the meridian, on the Leonid meteorite showers and the long-tailed comets flying through space. Etymology 2 en mk,ru Леони́д or en uk Леоні́д, from en grc Λεωνίδας. Cognate with the en - historical name en Leonidas. Proper noun en male, a transliteration of a common East Slavic name (notably that of the first two Ukrainian presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev). Anagrams en deilno El Nido Liendo dienol doline elonid indole loined olenid en Astronomy