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Leal

Definition: Leal

Leal

Adjective

1. (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)



Specialty Definitions: Leal

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Leal Loyal, trusty, law-abiding. Norman-French, leyale, modern French, loyale; Latin, legalis.)
Land of the leal. (See Land ...). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Leal, North Dakota

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Leal is a city located in Barnes County, North Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 36.

Geography


Leal is located at 47°6'20" North, 98°18'59" West (47.105452, -98.316385)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²). 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 36 people, 12 households, and 11 families residing in the city. The population density is 106.9/km² (272.4/mi²). There are 12 housing units at an average density of 35.6/km² (90.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 12 households out of which 58.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.7% are married couples living together, 25.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 8.3% are non-families. 8.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.00 and the average family size is 3.18. In the city the population is spread out with 38.9% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 63.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $28,750, and the median income for a family is $31,875. Males have a median income of $27,188 versus $0 for females. The per capita income for the city is $10,662. 9.1% of the population and 13.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leal, North Dakota."

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Crosswords: Leal

English words defined with "leal": Land of the leal. (references)
Specialty definitions using "leal": Hymn TunesLand o'the LealScots wha hae. (references)
Etymologies containing "leal": Dislealloyal. (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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Modern Usage: Leal

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Sousa Leal (1952)

Fernando Leal (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Leal

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adolfo Saldias - Leal Servidor De La Republica 1A.Ed (reference)

  • Discurso de las Postrimerías de Don Miguel Mañara : en su fantástica pasión y muerte : con la historia que Valdés Leal contara al visitante de la Ciudad de los Locos ; seguido de la Danza de las antorchas (reference)

  • Don Luis Leal, Una Vida Y DOS Culturas (reference)

  • El Partido Accion Nacional, La Larga Marcha, 1939-1994: Oposicion Leal y Partido de Protesta (reference)

  • Land of the Leal (Canongate Classics) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Leal

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Leal

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)83.33%10111,207
Adjective (general or positive)16.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Leal

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LealLast name9,0001,390
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Leal


1. Leal, ND (city, FIPS 45460)
Location: 47.10512 N, 98.31400 W
Population (1990): 35 (16 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 58479
Country: USA

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Expression: Leal

Expression using "leal": Land of the leal. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leal

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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
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Modern Translations: Leal

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), حقشناس , 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

   

Romanian

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Leal

Derivations

Words beginning with "leal": leally, lealties, lealty. (additional references)

Words ending with "leal": ileal, nucleal, paleal, zoogleal. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Leal"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "leal" (pronounced lē"l)
2-ē" labele, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Leal

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Leal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46716778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Cities
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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