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Definition of Leeds
1. Noun. A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry.
Definition of Leeds
1. Proper noun. A city in West Yorkshire, England. ¹
2. Proper noun. A village in Kent, the site of Leeds Castle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leeds
Literary usage of Leeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1899)
"Ij)O the traveller who enters the city of Leeds utterly ignorant of either its
... The highways and railroads by which men gain access to Leeds run past ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thus a picturesque and characteristic feature of life in Leeds seems likely at
no distant date to become extinct At one period it seemed probable that the ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1910)
"CO v. i title reads Leeds parish church registers. Leeds Grammar School.
Admission books from 1820 to 1900. Edited and annotated by Edmund Wilson. ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1866)
"His father was Benjamin Bass Leeds, of Dorchester, son of Daniel Leeds, a celebrated
schoolmaster in that town, who was son of Hopestill Leeds, ..."
5. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"Johnson, were on the occasion of the marriage of this fifth Bute of Leeds with
his second wife, Catherine Anguish. But this is dearly a mistake, ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"His mother, a daughter of Joseph Scurr of Leeds, died iu 1828. His father,
originally a linen merchant at Thirsk, settled at Leeds, and became steward of ..."
7. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1858)
"THE Borough of Leeds comprises the Township of Leeds, and the out-Townships of
Farnley, Potter Newton, Chapel Town, Beeston, Headingley with Burley, ..."
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