Leonidas

Definition: Leonidas

Leonidas

Noun

1. King of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where is was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC).

"Leonidas" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lion".

Date "Leonidas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Crosswords: Leonidas

English words defined with "Leonidas": battle of Thermopylae ♦ Thermopylae. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Leonidas": Ahasuerus ♦ Come and take Them ♦ Leonidas of Modern Greece. (references)

Leonidas was a king of Sparta, the seventeenth of the Agiad line. He succeeded, probably in 489 or 488 BC, his half-brother Cleomenes I, whose daughter Gorgo he married.

In 480 he was sent with about 7000 men to hold the pass of Thermopylae against the army of Xerxes (see Battle of Thermopylae). The smallness of the force was, according to a current story, due to the fact that he was deliberately going to his doom, an oracle having foretold that Sparta could be saved only by the death of one of its kings: in reality it seems rather that the ephors supported the scheme half-heartedly, their policy being to concentrate the Greek forces at the Isthmus. Leonidas repulsed the frontal attacks of the Persians, but when the Malian Ephialtes led the Persian general Hydarnes by a mountain track to the rear of the Greeks he divided his army, himself remaining in the pass with 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans.

Perhaps he hoped to surround Hydarnes' force: if so, the movement failed, and the little Greek army, attacked from both sides, was cut down to a man save the Thebans, who are said to have surrendered.

Leonidas fell in the thickest of the fight; his head was afterwards cut off by Xerxes' order and his body crucified. Our knowledge of the circumstances are too slight to enable us to judge Leonidas' strategy, but his heroism and devotion secured him an almost unique place in the imagination not only of his own but also of succeeding times.

Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
That loyal to their law and custom, here we lie.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

Leonidas, Minnesota

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Leonidas is a city located in St. Louis County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 60.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²). 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.32% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 60 people, 26 households, and 19 families residing in the city. The population density is 17.4/km² (45.1/mi²). There are 27 housing units at an average density of 7.8/km² (20.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 98.33% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 26 households out of which 34.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.7% are married couples living together, 3.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.9% are non-families. 15.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.31 and the average family size is 2.58. In the city the population is spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 30.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $19,167, and the median income for a family is $19,583. Males have a median income of $31,250 versus $40,000 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,023. 14.3% of the population and 20.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 10.0% are under the age of 18 and 14.3% are 65 or older.

Domain	Title
Books	The Iron Clew (A Leonidas Witherall Mystery) (reference) Asclepiades of Samos and Leonidas of Tarentum: The Poems (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Portrait of Lieut. Gen. Leonidas Polk, officer of the Confederate Army.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He would have died at Thermopylae with Leonidas, and would have burned Drogheda with Cromwell.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Leonidas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.61% of the time. "Leonidas" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	82.61%	57	44,859
Noun (plural)	17.39%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	69	N/A

"Leonidas" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lion".

The following table summarizes names related to "Leonidas."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Leonidas	Male	Ancient Greek	N/A
Leonidas	Male	Greek	N/A
Leonid	Male	Russian	Leonidas
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1. Leonidas, MI
Zip Code(s): 49066
Country: USA

2. Leonidas, MN (city, FIPS 36530)
Location: 47.46735 N, 92.56791 W
Population (1990): 70 (28 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expression: Leonidas

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Leonidas": leonidas-prophet.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leonidas

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
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leonidas molina rafael trujillo	16	leonidas stephanie	3
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leonidas trujillo	9	leonidas spartan	2
king leonidas	8	ajusticiamiento leonidas rafael trujillo	2
king leonidas sparta	8	fampritsis leonidas	2
leonidas mi	7	leonidas thermopylae	2
leonidas polk	7	david leonidas	2
leonidas sparta	6	blanton leonidas thomas	2
biografia de leonidas rafael trujillo	5
		blanton leonidas thomas	2
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Modern Translations: Leonidas

Language		Translations for "Leonidas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		Λεωνίδασ. (various references)

Pig Latin		eonidaslay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Leonidas

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: anisole, denials, indoles, isolead, ladinos, snailed.
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	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: alongside, delations, insolated, melanoids, palinodes.
	+2 letters: adhesional, andouilles, aneuploids, bandoliers, dandelions, dealations, decisional, deflations, defoliants, delusional, desolating, desolation, girandoles, lidocaines, mandolines, medaillons, medallions, nodalities, normalised, planetoids, sloganized, solenoidal, soundalike, sphenoidal, videolands.
	+3 letters: allantoides, anadiploses, consolidate, cordialness, delegations, delineators, delusionary, depilations, desalinator, desolations, devotionals, diagnosable, dimensional, disrelation, dragonflies, endoplasmic, gadolinites, ganglioside, grandiosely, hollandaise, inosculated, linerboards, meridionals, nondisabled, palindromes, pentaploids, polyandries, secondarily, soundalikes, sulfonamide.
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