Leigh definition

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Leigh is a name for either boys or girls, that means delicate or meadow.

An example of Leigh is the singer and songwriter, Leigh Nash, who sang with the band Sixpence None the Richer.

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(person, proper) A masculine and feminine name; var. Lee.
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A surname, variant of Lee.
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A male given name, transferred from the surname.
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Origin of leigh

  • From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground") from Old English lÄ“ah (“clearing in a forest") from Proto-Germanic *lauhō (“meadow"), from Proto-Indo-European *louk- (“field, meadow"). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow"), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove") (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket"); Dutch -lo (“used in placenames")), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes"), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow"). More at Waterloo.

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Leigh Sentence Examples

  • The public career of Leigh terminated with his expulsion from parliament with the rest of the Presbyterian party in 1648.

  • He began as a gardener, but in 1814, when employed at High Leigh in Cheshire, offered himself to the London Missionary Society, and in 1816 was sent out to South Africa.

  • He died at Leigh, near Tunbridge Wells, on the 9th of August 1883.

  • In South Australia, at Leigh's Creek, north of Port Augusta, coalbeds have been discovered.

  • A similar work on Lancashire, Cheshire and the Peak was sent out in 1700 by Leigh, and one on Cornwall by Borlase in 1758 - all these four being printed at Oxford.

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