noun
Leicester
LEHS-tuh
noun
1
A breed of English sheep prized for both its meat and its long, lustrous wool.
"The farm kept a small flock of Leicester sheep for wool."
name
1
A city and county town in the English Midlands.
"The team plays its home matches in Leicester."
How to Use Leicester
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishChiefly an English city name; also a sheep breed named after the same region.
Easily confused with
Leicestershire
Word Forms
Leicesters plural
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Etymology
From Middle English Ledecestre, itself from an Old English name combining a river-name element with "ceaster," meaning a fortified Roman town.