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Leonid

[ lee-uh-nid ]

noun

Astronomy.
plural Leonids, Leonides
  1. any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.


Leonid

/ ˈːəɪ /

noun

  1. 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

Origin of Leonid1

1875–80; < New Latin DzԾŧ, equivalent to Latin ō- (stem of ō ) Leo + -id 1
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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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