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Leonid

proper noun

  1. meteors which appear to radiate from the constellation Leo
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈliː.ə.nɪd/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Macedonian and Russian Леони́д (Leoníd) or Ukrainian Леоні́д (Leoníd), from Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας (Leōnídas). Cognate with the English historical name Leonidas.

  1. A male given name, a transliteration of a common East Slavic name (notably that of the first two Ukrainian presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev).

noun

Etymology: From Latin Leō (“lion; the constellation Leo”, stem Leōn-) + -id.

  1. Any meteor of a meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Leo in November.

    “I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries.”

    “Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.”