Leonine meaning

lē'ə-nīn'
Resembling or suggestive of a lion, as in being powerful or dignified.
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The definition of leonine is someone or something that is like a lion.

An example of a leonine person is a person with a big mane of fluffy hair.

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Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion.
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Of, characteristic of, or like a lion.
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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion.

His leonine face scared the young children.

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Origin of leonine

  • Middle English from Old French leonin from Latin leōnīnus from leō leōn- lion lion
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Latin leōnÄ«nus 'of a lion; lion-like'.
    From Wiktionary

Leonine Sentence Examples

  • leonine body continues to the south.

  • The Greeks equated Ubasti with their Artemis, confusing her with the leonine Tafne, sister of Shoou (Apollo).

  • His hair, originally dark, became, in his later years, silvery white, and its wavy locks combined with those of his flowing beard to give him that leonine appearance so familiar through his later portraits.

  • March, in keeping with the apocalyptic saying about lions and lambs, came in with a leonine roar.

  • Note the Leonine head appearing above the bindings of the cosmic serpent.

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