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Definition of 'lee'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lee
protective shelter:
the lee of a rock in a storm.

2.  lee
the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind:
huts erected under the lee of the mountain.

3.  lee
Chiefly Naut. the quarter or region toward which the wind blows.

4. (adj.) lee
pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee.

5. (n.) lee
Usu., lees. the insoluble matter that settles from a liquid, esp. from wine; sediment; dregs.

6. (n.) Lee
Ann, 1736–84, British mystic: founder of Shaker sect in U.S.

7.  Lee
Charles, 1731–82, American Revolutionary general, born in England.

8.  Lee
Francis Lightfoot, 1734–97, American Revolutionary statesman.

9.  Lee
Gypsy Rose (Rose Louise Hovick), 1914–70, U.S. entertainer.

10.  Lee
Henry (“Light-Horse Harry”), 1756–1818, American Revolutionary general (father of Robert E. Lee).

11.  Lee
Richard Henry, 1732–94, American Revolutionary statesman (brother of Francis L. Lee).

12.  Lee
Robert E(dward), 1807–70, Confederate general in the Civil War (son of Henry Lee).

Definition of 'lee'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Lee, Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)

2. (noun) Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Louise Hovick
United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)

3. (noun) Lee, Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam
United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)

4. (noun) Lee, Tsung Dao Lee
United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)

5. (noun) Lee, Richard Henry Lee
leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)

6. (noun) Lee, Henry Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee
soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)

7. (noun) Lee, Robert E. Lee, Robert Edward Lee
American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)

8. (adj) lee, lee side, leeward
the side of something that is sheltered from the wind

9. (adj) downwind, lee(a)
towards the side away from the wind

Definition of 'lee'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) lee
of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel

2. (noun) lee
that which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural

3. (noun) lee
a sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

4. (noun) lee
that part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a

5. (verb) lee
to lie; to speak falsely

Translation of 'lee'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the sheltered side, away from the wind We sat in the lee of the rock.
Afrikaans: beskutting	Arabic: جانِب	Bulgarian: завет
Brazilian: abrigo	Czech: závětří	German: windgeschützte Seite, Lee
Danish: læ	Greek: απάγκιο	Spanish: abrigo, sotavento, socair
Estonian: alltuulekülg	Farsi: بادپناه	Finnish: tyynenpuoli
French: côté sous le vent	Hebrew: מַחסֶה מְהָרוּח	Hindi: ओर
Croatian: zaštita, zaklon	Hungarian: szélárnyék	Indonesian: bagian terlindung
Icelandic: skjól, var, hlé	Italian: riparo, sottovento	Japanese: 風の当たらない側
Korean: (물건에 가려) 바람이 없는 곳	Lithuanian: užuovėja	Latvian: patvērums; aizvējš
Malay: lindungan	Dutch: luwte	Norwegian: le
Polish: osłona	Persian: ،پناگاه بادپناه	Pashto: په بيړى كښى استوګن ځاى
Portuguese: abrigo	Romanian: ferit de vânt	Russian: укрытие
Slovak: závetrie	Slovenian: zavetje	Serbian: zavetrina
Swedish: lä	Thai: ที่บังลม	Turkish: rüzgârdan korunmalı yer,
Taiwanese: 背風處	Ukrainian: захист; укриття	Urdu: سایہ ، پناہ
Vietnamese: chỗ tránh gió	Chinese: 背风处
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