noun
leigh
LEE
noun
1
An old, mostly literary or dialectal word for a meadow or a clearing in a forest.
"The poem describes cattle grazing on a quiet leigh at dusk."
How to Use Leigh
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA meadow or forest clearing — a word you mostly meet today as part of English place names and the given name Leigh, rather than in everyday speech.
When to use it
Archaic/literary as a common noun; survives mainly in place names and personal names.
Word Forms
leighs plural
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Etymology
From Old English lēah ("clearing in a forest"), the same root that gives many English place names ending in "-ley" or "-leigh."