ley

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
6
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/leɪ/
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/leɪ/ · /liː/

Definition of ley

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
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noun

  1. Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
  2. A ley line.
    “For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]”
  3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of lea.
  4. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of lye.
  5. (obsolete)Law.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Fallow; unseeded.
  2. (not-comparable)Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A commune of Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.

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Etymology

See lea.

Anagrams of ley

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Words you can make from ley

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2-letter words

2 words

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3 extensions · 2 front · 1 back

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