Leonid

[lee-uh-nid]

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noun

Astronomy.

Leonids, Leonides

any of a shower of meteors occurring around November 15 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo.

Leonid

/ ˈ��ːə��ɪ�� /

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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Origin of Leonid¹

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

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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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