Definitions for Leave
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Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. leave, leave of absencenoun

   the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty

   "a ten day's leave to visit his mother"

2. leavenoun

   permission to do something

   "she was granted leave to speak"

3. farewell, leave, leave-taking, partingverb

   the act of departing politely

   "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow"

4. leave, go forth, go awayverb

   go away from a place

   "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"

5. leaveverb

   go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness

   "She left a mess when she moved out"; "His good luck finally left him"; "her husband left her after 20 years of marriage"; "she wept thinking she had been left behind"

6. leaveverb

   act or be so as to become in a specified state

   "The inflation left them penniless"; "The president's remarks left us speechless"

7. leave, leave alone, leave behindverb

   leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking

   "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"

8. exit, go out, get out, leaveverb

   move out of or depart from

   "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"

9. leave, allow for, allow, provideverb

   make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain

   "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"

10. leave, result, leadverb

    have as a result or residue

    "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"

11. leave, depart, pull up stakesverb

    remove oneself from an association with or participation in

    "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

12. entrust, leaveverb

    put into the care or protection of someone

    "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care"

13. bequeath, will, leaveverb

    leave or give by will after one's death

    "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate"

14. leaveverb

    have left or have as a remainder

    "That left the four of us"; "19 minus 8 leaves 11"

15. leave, leave behindverb

    be survived by after one's death

    "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"

16. impart, leave, give, pass onverb

    transmit (knowledge or skills)

    "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here"; "impart a new skill to the students"

17. forget, leaveverb

    leave behind unintentionally

    "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Leavenoun

   Etymology: leafe , Saxon; from lyfan , to grant.

   1. Grant of liberty; permission; allowance.

   By your leave, Ireneus, notwithstanding all this your careful foresight, methinks I see an evil lurk unespied. Edmund Spenser.

   When him his dearest Una did behold,
   Disdaining life, desiring leave to dye. Edmund Spenser.

   I make bold to press upon you.
   —— You’re welcome; give us leave, drawer. William Shakespeare.

   The days
   Of Sylla’s sway, when the free sword took leave
   To act all that it would. Ben Jonson, Cataline.

   Thrice happy snake! that in her sleeve
   May boldly creep, we dare not give
   Our thoughts so unconfin’d a leave. Edmund Waller.

   No friend has leave to bear away the dead. Dryden.

   Offended that we fought without his leave,
   He takes this time his secret hate to shew. Dryden.

   One thing more I crave leave to offer about syllogism, before I leave it. John Locke.

   I must have leave to be grateful to any who serves me, let him be never so obnoxious to any party: nor did the tory party put me to the hardship of asking this leave. Alexander Pope.

   2 . Farewel; adieu.

   Take leave and part, for you must part forthwith. William Shakespeare.

   Evils that take leave,
   On their departure, most of all shew evil. William Shakespeare.

   There is further compliment of leave taking between France and him. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Here my father comes;
   A double blessing is a double grace;
   Occasion smiles upon a second leave. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   But my dear nothings, take your leave,
   No longer must you me deceive. John Suckling.

   Many stars may be visible in our hemisphere, that are not so at present; and many which are at present shall take leave of our horizon, and appear unto southern habitations. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 13.

2. To Leaveverb

   pret. I left; I have left.

   1. To quit; to forsake.

   A man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife. Gen. ii. 24.

   When they were departed from him, they left him in great diseases. 2 Chron. xxiv. 25.

   If they love lees, and leave the lusty wine,
   Envy them not their palates with the swine. Ben Jonson.

   2. To desert; to abandon.

   He that is of an unthankful mind, will leave him in danger that delivered him. Ecclus. xxix. 17.

   3. To have remaining at death.

   There be of them that have left a name behind them. Ecclus. xliv. 8.

   4. Not to deprive of.

   They still have left me the providence of God, and all the promises of the gospel, and my charity to them too. Taylor.

   5. To suffer to remain.

   If it be done without order, the mind comprehendeth less that which is set down; and besides, it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed. Francis Bacon.

   These things must be left uncertain to farther discoveries in future ages. George Abbot, Description of the World.

   Who those are, to whom this right by descent belongs, he leaves out of the reach of any one to discover from his writings. John Locke.

   6. Not to carry away.

   They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, and left no sustenance for Israel. Judg. vi. 4.

   He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle; which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil. Deut. xxviii. 48.

   Vastius gave strict commandment, that they should leave behind them unnecessary baggage. Richard Knolles, History.

   7. To fix as a token or remembrance.

   This I leave with my reader, as an occasion for him to consider, how much he may be beholden to experience. John Locke.

   8. To bequeath; to give as inheritance.

   That peace thou leav’st to thy imperial line,
   That peace, Oh happy shade, be ever thine. Dryden.

   9. To give up; to resign.

   Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger. Lev. xix. 10.

   If a wise man were left to himself, and his own choice, to wish the greatest good to himself he could devise; the sum of all his wishes would be this, That there were just such a being as God is. John Tillotson, Serm. 1.

   10. To permit without interposition.

   Whether Esau were a vassal, I leave the reader to judge. John Locke.

   11. To cease to do; to desist from.

   Let us return, lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us. 1 Sam. ix. 5.

   12. To Leave off. To desist from; to forbear.

   If, upon any occasion, you bid him leave off the doing of any Thing, you must be sure to carry the point. John Locke.

   In proportion as old age came on, he left off fox-hunting. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 115.

   13. To Leave off. To forsake.

   He began to leave off some of his old acquaintance, his roaring and bullying about the streets: he put on a serious air. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull.

   14. To Leave out. To omit; to neglect.

   My good Camillo;
   I am so fraught with curious business, that
   I leave out ceremony. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   Shun they to treat with me too?
   No good lady,
   You may partake: I have told ’em who you are.
   I should be loth to be left out, and here too. Ben Jonson.

   What is set down by order and division doth demonstrate, that nothing is left out or omitted, but all is there. Francis Bacon.

   Befriend till utmost end
   Of all thy dues be done, and none left out,
   Ere nice morn on the Indian steep
   From her cabin’d loop-hole peep. John Milton.

   We ask, if those subvert
   Reason’s establish’d maxims, who assert
   That we the world’s existence may conceive,
   Though we one atom out of matter leave. Richard Blackmore.

   I always thought this passage left out with a great deal of judgment, by Tucca and Varius, as it seems to contradict a part in the sixth Æneid. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

3. To Leaveverb

   To levy; to raise: a corrupt word, made, I believe, by Edmund Spenser, for a rhyme.

   Etymology: from levy; lever, French.

   An army strong she leav’d,
   To war on those which him had of his realm bereav’d. Edmund Spenser, Fairy Queen, b. ii.

4. To Leaveverb

   1. To cease; to desist.

   She is my essence, and I leave to be,
   If I be not by her fair influence
   Foster’d, illumin’d, cherish’d, kept alive. William Shakespeare.

   And since this business so far fair is done,
   Let us not leave till all our own be won. William Shakespeare, H. IV.

   He began at the eldest, and left at the youngest. Genes.

   2. To Leave off. To desist.

   Grittus, hoping that they in the castle would not hold out, left off to batter or undermine it, wherewith he perceived he little prevailed. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

   But when you find that vigorous heat abate,
   Leave off, and for another summons wait. Wentworth Dillon.

   3. To Leave off. To stop.

   Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin,
   But still beget new mischiefs in their course. Daniel.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Leaveverb

   to send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out

2. Leaveverb

   to raise; to levy

3. Leavenoun

   liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license

4. Leavenoun

   the act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go

5. Leave

   to withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house

6. Leave

   to let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed

7. Leave

   to cease from; to desist from; to abstain from

8. Leave

   to desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish

9. Leave

   to let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge

10. Leave

    to put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators

11. Leave

    to have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece

12. Leaveverb

    to depart; to set out

13. Leaveverb

    to cease; to desist; to leave off

14. Etymology: [See Levy.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. leave

   Leave is Singaporean Mandopop artist Stefanie Sun's fourth Mandarin studio album. It was released on 21 May 2002 by Warner Music Taiwan. The album features the English and Mandarin version of "一起走到", the theme song of Sing Singapore for the 2002 National Day Parade. The album was awarded one of the Top 10 Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year at the 2002 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Leave

   lēv, n. permission: liberty granted: formal parting of friends: farewell. [A.S. leáf, permission, cog. with leóf, dear. See Lief.]

2. Leave

   lēv, v.t. to allow to remain: to abandon, resign: to quit or depart from: to have remaining at death: to bequeath: to refer for decision.—v.i. to desist: to cease: to depart:—pr.p. leav′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. left.—Leave alone, to let remain undisturbed; Leave in the dark, to conceal information from; Leave off, to desist, to terminate: to give up using; Leave out, to omit.—Get left (coll.), to be beaten or left behind; Take French leave (see French); Take leave, to assume permission: to part, say farewell. [A.S. lǽfan, to leave a heritage (láf), lifian, to be remaining.]

3. Leave

   lēv, v.t. (Spens.) to levy, to raise.

4. Leave

   lēv, v.i. to put out leaves.—adj. Leaved, furnished with leaves: made with folds.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. leave

   Permission to be absent from the ship for the day. (See ABSENCE, LIBERTY.)--French leave. Going on shore without permission.--Long leave. Permission to be absent for a number of days.

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Give
   • Have
   • Lose
   • Make
   • Permission
   • Refrain
   • Tell
   • Time Off

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Leave' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #573

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Leave' in Written Corpus Frequency: #333

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Leave' in Nouns Frequency: #1732

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Leave' in Verbs Frequency: #29

How to pronounce Leave?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Leave in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Leave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Leave in a Sentence

1. The Department:

   The Town of Rocky Mount fully supports all lawful expressions of freedom of speech and assembly by The Town of Rocky Mount employees but does not condone the unlawful acts that occurred that day, based on the available information, The Philadelphia Police Department has notified federal authorities and the individuals that were present at the event are on administrative leave pending review.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   of course i have learned over the years that my fantasies are always better than reality and i leave it at that.

3. Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff:

   It starts with the design of the stadium. This is the most vertical stadium in the NFL. Seats are closer to the field than any other comparable stadium in the NFL. You feel the noise, you feel the energy. Technology brings it to life. But it’s truly our fans – Rams fans and Charger fans. I think they’ve come to adopt this home-field mentality from so many times whether we were in the Coliseum or Dignity Health Center, these temporary stadiums, to they have a sense of ownership of this building. A sense of pride and you see it all the time, i think they walk in and realize they have the best stadium in the NFL and they get to be here and it is a loud building. When you’re here, you leave with your ears ringing. Every time you go in, you talk to Sean McVay, I’m sure Brandon (Staley) as well, after a game and it’s like I have a massive headache. I think that’s the best part of what our fans bring – that energy. And it is rare that people talk about the noise in a building in Los Angeles. It’s just not the way our buildings are designed or what the fans are known for but I think it’s given all sports fans in Los Angeles something to be proud of.

4. Mahmud Rafiq:

   We had very little food, and we agreed that we would leave it for the women and children, then they started hitting us. They took the food. They pushed many of us overboard. They beat us and attacked us with knives. I was hit with a wooden plank on the head and on my legs.

5. Ulysses S. Grant:

   Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.

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