Usually means: Grassland or meadow; unit of area.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word lea:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lea: Merriam-Webster
  2. LEA, lea, lea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lea, lea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lea: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lea, lea, lea: Wordnik
  7. LEA, Lea, lea: Wiktionary
  8. lea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lea (ley): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lea: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lea, -lea, lea, lea: Dictionary.com
  12. lea: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. LEA, Lea (album), Lea (disambiguation), Lea (given name), Lea (singer), Lea (surname), Lea (unit), Lea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lea, -lea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lea: Rhymezone
  17. Lea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Lea: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. LEA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. lea: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lea: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. lea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lea, lea: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Lea: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. LEA (disambiguation), Le'a, lea: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. LEA: Acronym Finder
  3. LEA: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. baby names list (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lea: The Folk File
  2. L.E.A, lea: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See leas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An open field, meadow, pasture.
noun:  Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
noun:  A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
noun:  A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
noun:  An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.
noun:  A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
noun:  A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
noun:  A village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4930).
noun:  A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286).
noun:  A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586).
noun:  A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, merged into Doddington and District civil parish in 2023.
noun:  (US) Initialism of law enforcement agency.
noun:  (England and Wales, education, historical) Initialism of local education authority.
noun:  (Ireland, politics) Initialism of local electoral area.

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