Definitions for Lee

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Lee lee

Spelling: [lee]

IPA: /li/

Lee is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in Lee (eel).

Definitions for Lee

noun

1. protective shelter:
2. the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind:
3. Chiefly Nautical. the quarter or region toward which the wind blows.
4. Usually, lees. the insoluble matter that settles from a liquid, especially from wine; sediment; dregs.
5. Ann, 1736–84, British mystic: founder of Shaker sect in U.S.
6. Charles, 1731–82, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
7. Doris Emrick [em-rik] /ˈɛm rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1905–1986, U.S. painter.
8. Fitzhugh [fits-hyoo or, often, -yoo,, fits-hyoo or, often, -yoo] /ˈfɪtsˌhyu or, often, -ˌyu,, fɪtsˈhyu or, often, -ˈyu/ (Show IPA), 1835–1905, U.S. general and statesman (grandson of Henry Lee; nephew of Robert E. Lee).
9. Francis Lightfoot [lahyt-foo t] /ˈlaɪtˌfʊt/ (Show IPA), 1734–97, American Revolutionary statesman (brother of Richard H. Lee).
10. Gypsy Rose (Rose Louise Hovick) 1914–70, U.S. entertainer.
11. Harper, born 1926, U.S. novelist.
12. Henry ("Light-Horse Harry") 1756–1818, American Revolutionary general (father of Robert E. Lee).
13. Kuan Yew [kwahn yoo] /kwɑn yu/ (Show IPA), 1923–2015, Singapore political leader: prime minister 1959–90.
14. Manfred Bennington [man-frid] /ˈmæn frɪd/ (Show IPA), ("Ellery Queen") 1905–71, U.S. mystery writer, in collaboration with Frederic Dannay.
15. Richard Henry, 1732–94, American Revolutionary statesman (brother of Francis L. Lee).
16. Robert E(dward) 1807–70, U.S. soldier and educator: Confederate general in the American Civil War (son of Henry Lee).
17. Sir Sidney, 1859–1926, English biographer and critic.
18. Spike (Shelton Jackson Lee) born 1957, U.S. film director, screenwriter, and actor.
19. Tsung-Dao [dzoo ng-dou] /ˈdzʊŋˈdaʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1926, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1957.
20. a town in W Massachusetts: resort.
21. a male or female given name.

Idioms

1. by the lee, Nautical. accidentally against what should be the lee side of a sail:
2. under the lee, Nautical. to leeward.

adjective

1. pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee.

Origin of Lee

before 900; Middle English; Old English hlēo(w) shelter, cognate with Old Frisian hli, hly, Old Saxon hleo, Old Norse hlé

Examples for Lee

Little did I know that lee had actually been born into a wealthy family.

But lee was of opinion it would lead them too far from Gen. Greene.

lee would stay up late, unable to sleep from the pains he had in his back.

lee and Coogan did briefly meet with the pope, with pictures to prove it, but no one at the Vatican officially screened the film.

What stuck in my mind were the two supporting actors, Gloria Grahame and lee Marvin.

A part of the time, our lee lower yard-arms were nearly in the water.

Sing lee had been a silent listener to this strange conversation.

Now the little shop had been far distanced by the competition of Sothern and lee.

lee, with his invincible legions, was still sweeping northward.

In my opinion lee was one of the greatest actors of all time.