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leeds
/lidz/
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What does leeds mean?
noun
- plural of leed
proper noun
- A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.
- A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England, the site of Leeds Castle (OS grid ref TQ8252).
More meanings (9)
proper noun
- A city in Jefferson County, St. Clair County and Shelby County, Alabama.
- A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
- A village in the city of Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
- A township in Murray County, Minnesota.
- A neighborhood of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
- A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Catskill, Greene County, New York.
- A minor city and township in Benson County, North Dakota.
- A small town in Washington County, Utah.
- A small town and unincorporated community therein, in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
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IPA pronunciation
/lidz/
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“There’s an old widow in her room, somewhere, let us suppose in the suburbs of Leeds.”
On our way we saw Kiveton, an ugly neglected seat of the Duke of Leeds, with noble apartments and several good portraits!
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There are numerous indications of iron-smelting having been conducted on a considerable scale at some remote period in the neighbourhood of Leeds, in Yorkshire.
At the conclusion of Mrs. Dyson's evidence the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the Leeds Assizes, which commenced the week following.
One daughter, the sole survivor of the 10, married a market gardener named Platt, who was well known in Leeds.