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Definition: Leal |
LealAdjective1. (archaic or Scottish) faithful and true; "leal to the core of her intrepid Scottish heart"- Harry Lauder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Etymology: Leal \Leal\, adjective. [from Old English expression leial, another form of loial, French loyal. See Loyal.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Leal Loyal, trusty, law-abiding. Norman-French, leyale, modern French, loyale; Latin, legalis.) Land of the leal. (See Land ...). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leal, North Dakota."
Crosswords: Leal |
| English words defined with "leal": Land of the leal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leal": Hymn Tunes ♦ Land o'the Leal ♦ Scots wha hae. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "leal": Disleal ♦ loyal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Leal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (anchored, brave, devoted, fair, faithful, Frank, gallant, guileless, honest, loyal, opening, simple-hearted, sincere, soldierly, sportsmanlike, sporty, staunch, true, true blue, true-hearted, trustworthy, trusty), Romanian (true), Spanish (aboveboard, devoted, faithful, fast, frank, honest, loyal, single minded, single-hearted, stalwart, staunch, true, trusty). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sousa Leal (1952) Fernando Leal (1983) | |
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Economic History | Mauritius | Other trading firms include Food and Allied Industries Group, Harel Group, Happy World Ltd., Espitalier Noel Group, and Leal Group. (references) |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | The Leal case was passed the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for review. (references) |
Nicaragua | At the end of 2000, the CSJ removed the judge who was involved in the Leal case. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Leal" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Leal" is used about 12 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) | 83.33% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "leal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Leal | Last name | 9,000 | 1,390 |
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1. Leal, ND (city, FIPS 45460) |
Expression using "leal": Land of the leal. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
leal sharon | 70 |
leal | 29 |
leal roberto | 15 |
leal tania | 14 |
leal leandra | 11 |
leal susan | 11 |
leal nena | 9 |
leal sung yong | 9 |
leal veronica | 8 |
hugo leal | 8 |
kevin leal | 7 |
butch leal | 5 |
leal nude sharon | 4 |
leal picture sharon | 4 |
fernando leal | 4 |
linda leal | 4 |
andrea leal | 4 |
leal linda miller | 4 |
aurelino brazil leal | 4 |
eusebio leal | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "leal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | ЛоÑлен, Ð'ерен. (various references) | ||||||||||
Farsi | ÙˆÙØ§Ø¯Ø§Ø± (Constant, Loyal, Stanch, Staunchstanch, Trig), ØÙ‚شناس , صادق (Honest, Loyal, Sincere), دوست (Ally, Amicable, Chum, Friend, Schoolmate), بی عیب (Entire, Intact, Perfect, Sound, Unexceptionable). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | lojális (loyal, true, true-hearted), hűséges (blue, faithful, sincere, staunch, true, unfailing, yeomanly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eallay Loial (fair, faithful, faithfully, honest, loyal, sincere, staunch, straight, true), Credincios (as true as steel, believer, believing, devoted, devout, faithful, honest, loyal, loyally, never failing, reliable, staunch, true, true blue, trusty, unfailing, unswerving). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "leal": leally, lealties, lealty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "leal": ileal, nucleal, paleal, zoogleal. (additional references) | |
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"Leal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elal, eleal, Ilal, Lawal, Leala, ledal, leil, lexal, lezal, ljacll, Lydall. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leal" (pronounced lē"l) |
| 2 | -ē" l | abele, anneal, appeal, conceal, congeal, corneal, creel, deal, diel, eel, feel, genteel, heal, heel, ideal, keel, kneel, meal, ordeal, peal, Peel, puerile, real, reel, repeal, reseal, reveal, riel, seal, Seel, Shiel, spiel, squeal, steal, steel, surreal, teal, teel, unreal, unseal, veal, wheel, zeal. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-l" | |
-1 letter: ale, all, ell, lea. | |
-2 letters: ae, al, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l" | |
+1 letter: allee, alley, cella, fella, ileal, label, ladle, lapel, legal. | |
+2 letters: alible, allees, allege, allele, alleys, allied, allies, allude, allure, aludel, alulae, balled, baller, ballet, befall, begall, bullae, called, caller, callet, cellae, cellar, dalles, faille, fallen, faller, fellah, fellas, galled, gallet, galley, hallel, labels, labile, ladled, ladler, ladles, lalled, lamely, lanely, lapels, lately, laurel, leally, lealty, leanly, legals, lethal, liable, lienal, lineal, locale, loreal, luteal, malled, mallee, mallei, mallet, paella, paleal, palely, palled, pallet, plexal, rallye, really, recall, refall, sallet, stella, taille, taller, telial, ullage, valley, villae, walled, wallet, wallie. | |
+3 letters: abollae, agilely, ainsell, alcalde, alertly, alienly, allayed, allayer, alleged, alleger, alleges, allegro, alleles, allelic, allergy, allheal, allonge, allover, allowed, alloyed, allseed, alluded, alludes, allured, allurer, allures, aludels, alveoli, areally, avellan, axillae, baleful, ballade, ballers, ballets, ballies, ballute, balneal, barbell, befalls, begalls, bellman, bleakly, braille, bullace, bullate, cadelle, calicle, callers, callets, callose, calomel, calycle, canella, carrell, cecally, cedilla, cellars, challie, cleanly, clearly, clypeal, collage, collate, dallied, dallier, dallies, dewfall, dialled, diallel, dialler, eluvial, equally, eyeball, failles, falafel, fallers, falsely, favella, felafel, fellahs, fellate, flailed, flannel, flatlet, floatel, flyable, flyleaf, gabelle, galilee, gallate, gallein, galleon, gallery, galleta, gallets, galleys, gallied, gallies, gazelle, gelable, gellant, gluteal, hallels, halloed, halloes, hazelly, helical, hellcat, helluva, hollaed, icefall, ideally, illegal, jellaba, kleagle, labeled, labeler, labella, lacteal, ladlers, lamella, landler, langley, langrel, lapeled, largely, lateral, laurels, lawless, lawlike, leaflet, leakily, legally, lethals, lexical, liberal, ligulae, likable, linable, literal, livable, lobelia, locales, loessal, losable, lovable, loyaler, lumenal, lunulae, mallees, mallets, malleus, manille, maxwell, medulla, mesally, micella, millage, nacelle, novella, nucleal, ocellar, overall, paellas, pallets, pallier, patella, penally, perilla, pillage, playlet, pleural, pliable, rallied, rallier, rallies, ralline, rallyes, ravelly, reallot, recalls, refalls, regally, relabel, rubella, rulable, salable, sallets, sallied, sallier, sallies, scalpel, scleral, seagull, seawall, shellac, smaller, spalled, spaller, stalely, stalled, stellar, stellas, sullage, tailles, tallage, tallest, tallied, tallier, tallies, tillage, tollage, tramell, ullaged, ullages, ululate, vallate, valleys, valvule, venally, vexilla, vialled, village, wallets, walleye, wallies. | |
+4 letters: achillea, aerially, aiguille, ainsells, alcaldes, alderfly, aldolase, alkalies, alkaline, alkalise, alkalize, alkylate, allanite, allayers, allegers, alleging, allegory, allegros, allelism, alleluia, allergen, allergic, allergin, alleyway, allheals, alliable, alliance, allocate, allonges, allotted, allottee, allotter, allotype, allovers, allseeds, allspice, allurers, allusive, alpinely, alveolar, alveolus, amarelle, ampullae, ancillae, annulled, anvilled, appalled, appellee, appellor, arillate, arillode, armillae, avellane, awfuller, bailable, balkline, ballades, balletic, ballgame, ballonet, ballonne, balloted, balloter, ballsier, ballutes, balmlike, barbells, bargello, baseball, bastille, beadroll, beanball, befallen, begalled, billable, billhead, blackleg, blamable, blameful, blearily, blueball, boilable, brailled, brailles, brucella, bullaces, bullhead, caballed, cadelles, caecally, calendal, calflike, calicles, callable, calliope, callipee, calliper, calloses, callower, callused, calluses, calomels, calyceal, calycles, camellia, canaille, canalled, canaller, canellas, carolled, caroller, carrells, caulicle, cavilled, caviller, cedillas, cellared, cellarer, cellaret, cellmate, cellular, challies, clavicle, clawless, clawlike, claylike, clerical, cliental, clitella, closable, clubable, coalhole, coalless, coevally, coleslaw, collaged, collagen, collages, collapse, collared, collaret, collated, collates, collegia, coverall, crevalle, culpable, dalliers, deadfall, dentally, dewfalls, diallage, diallers, djellaba, elatedly, enthrall, epically, equalled, escallop, evenfall, eyeballs, facilely, falderal, falderol, fallible, fallowed, farewell, farfalle, favellas, fellable, fellahin, fellated, fellates, fellatio, fellator, festally, feudally, fileable, filmable, fireball, firehall, firewall, flabella, flagella, flagless, flagpole, flannels, flapless, flatlets, flatline, flawless, flexural, floatels, foilable, foldable, folktale, fullface, furlable, gabelled, gabelles, galilees, gallates, galleass, galleins, galleons, galleria, galletas, galleted, galloped, galloper, gallused, galluses, gavelled, gazelles, gellants, genially, glabella, gladlier, glandule, goalless, gravelly, grillade, grillage, guerilla, gullable, halflife, halloaed, hallooed, hallowed, hallower, halluces, halolike, haltless, handbell, harebell, healable, heelball, heliacal, hellcats, helpable, hilloaed, holdable, holloaed, hulloaed, icefalls, illative, illegals, inwalled, isolable, jellabas, keelhale, keelhaul, keloidal, kleagles, labelers, labeling, labelled, labeller, labellum, laceless, lacelike, lacteals, ladleful, ladylike, ladylove, laetrile, lakelike, lamblike, lamellae, lamellar, lamellas, lancelet, landlers, landless, landline, langleys, langrels, lanoline, lapelled, lapsable, lapsible, lardlike, latently, laterals, latterly, laudable, laureled, lavalier, lavalike, lawyerly, lazulite, leadenly, leadless, leafless, leaflets, leaflike, leakless, lealties, leasable, legalese, legalise, legalism, legalist, legality, legalize, lendable, lethally, leviable, libelant, liberals, lienable, liftable, ligulate, likeable, lineable, lineally, linearly, linkable, listable, literals, liveable, loamless, loanable, lobately, lobelias, lobulate, localise, localite, localize, lockable, loculate, loessial, longleaf, loveable, loveably, loyalest, lunately, lunulate, lyrately, mailable, mailless, malleoli, manilles, martello, maxillae, maxwells, mealless, meatball, medalled, medallic, medially, medullae, medullar, medullas, megillah, meltable, menially, mentally, mesially, metalled, metallic, methylal, micellae, micellar, millable, millages, millcake, milliare, millrace, mislabel, moldable, mycelial, nacelles, neurally, nonlegal, novellas, nucellar, oblately, ocellate, oeillade, overalls, overcall, paleosol, pallette, palliate, palliest, palmlike, palpable, panelled, papillae, parallel, pastille, patellae, patellar, patellas, pedalled, peelable, pelagial, pellagra, pelletal, perillas, petalled, pillaged, pillager, pillages, pillared, placable, planless, plantlet, planulae, plateful, platelet, playable, playless, playlets, playlike, plowable, preallot, prelegal, prunella, quinella, raillery, rakehell, ralliers, ramillie, ravelled, raveller, reallots, recalled, recaller, rectally, reelable, refallen, relabels, reliable, reliably, retrally, rivalled, rocaille, rostella, rubellas, sailable, saleable, saleably, salliers, sallowed, sallower, saltless, saltlike, salvable, scalable, scalpels, scutella, seagulls, sealable, seallike, seashell, seawalls, selamlik, selfheal, sellable, sensilla, sepalled, serially, sexually, shellack, shellacs, shigella, sidewall, skeletal, slablike, slakable, slalomed, sleazily, slidable, smallage, smallest, solvable, spadille, spallers, spillage, splenial, squalled, squaller, squillae, stellate, sullages, syllable, tableful, tailless, tailleur, taillike, talkable, tallaged, tallages, talliers, tallises, tallness, tallowed, tallymen, teleplay, tellable, telltale, tenaille, teocalli, terrella, thralled, tillable, tillages, tiltable, tollages, tollgate, tomalley, totalled, tramells, ululated, ululates, umbellar, umbrella, unallied, uncalled, unfallen, ungalled, unlethal, unreally, unwalled, valuable, valvelet, valvulae, valvules, venially, verbally, vernally, vestally, vexillar, villager, villages, violable, volatile, volplane, walkable, walleyed, walleyes, walloped, walloper, wallowed, wallower, weaselly, weldable, welladay, wellaway, wellhead, willable, zoogleal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46716778 |
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