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Leeds. Leeds is a city [a] in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines.
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Loidis, from which Leeds, Yorkshire derives its name, was...
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The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
Loidis, from which Leeds, Yorkshire derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet. The settlement certainly existed at the time of the Norman conquest of England and in 1086 was a thriving manor under the overlordship of Ilbert de Lacy.
The earliest known use of the noun Leeds is in the 1860s. OED's earliest evidence for Leeds is from 1863, in the writing of William Chaffers, authority on hallmarks and potters' marks.
Aug 6, 2024 · Leeds. A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. A village and civil parish of Maidstone borough, Kent, England, the site of Leeds Castle. A number of places in the United States: A city in Jefferson County, St. Clair County and Shelby County, Alabama. A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
3 meanings: 1. a city in N England, in Leeds unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire: linked with Liverpool and.... Click for more definitions.
The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [1]
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