Definition of Leeds

1. Noun. A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: West Yorkshire

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

Ledum
Ledum groenlandicum
Ledum palustre
Lee
Lee's Birthday
Lee-White method
Lee Buck Trevino
Lee De Forest
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Krasner
Lee Trevino
Lee Yuen Kam
Leede
Leede-Rumpel phenomenon
Leeds (current term)
Leela
Leesburg
Leeson
Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek's canals
Leeward Islander
Leeward Islands
Leewards
Leeza
Lefevre
Lefkada
Lefkas
Left Bank
Leftpondia

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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