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Leonid
[ lee-uh-nid ]
noun
Astronomy.
plural Leonids, Leonides
- any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.
Leonid
/ ˈːəɪ /
noun
- any member of a meteor shower that is usually insignificant, but more spectacular every 33 years, and occurs annually in mid-November, appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Leonid1
C19: from New Latin ōnidēs, from ō lion
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Another blogger, Leonid Shvets, responded sarcastically: "Thank you America! You have gone mad."
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By coincidence, Vlad had ordered poison from a Ukrainian seller called Leonid Zakutenko, just before the BBC exposed him.
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Three months later his father got a call: Leonid had been left at a city hospital, exhausted and severely dehydrated.
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"He told me that he'd been in awful conditions," Anna remembers talking to Leonid that day.
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Over the months, Leonid had been held and interrogated in multiple locations.
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