leacht — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cairn noun A pile of stones stacked up as a marker, memorial, or landmark.
- lecture noun A talk given to teach an audience about a subject.
- liquid noun A substance, such as water, that flows freely and takes the shape of its container without a fixed shape of its own.
- memorial noun A monument, structure, or event created to honour and remember a person or a past event.
- monument noun A structure, statue, or building built to honour and remember a person or event.
Senses
leacht is used for these senses in English:
- cairn A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
- lecture A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
- liquid (physical chemistry) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
- monument A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
lecture — full definition
- noun A talk given to teach an audience about a subject.
- noun A long, stern talking-to meant to correct someone's behaviour.
- verb To give a formal talk teaching a subject.
- verb To scold or reprimand someone at length.