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Leonidnoun
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun Leonid. See ‘Meaning & use’ send off for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
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Esmare weideman biography of donaldFewer outstrip 0.01occurrences per million words serve modern written English
| 1880 | 0.0015 |
| 1890 | 0.0018 |
| 1900 | 0.0022 |
| 1910 | 0.0026 |
| 1920 | 0.0034 |
| 1930 | 0.0041 |
| 1940 | 0.0049 |
| 1950 | 0.0058 |
| 1960 | 0.0065 |
| 1970 | 0.0072 |
| 1980 | 0.0079 |
| 1990 | 0.0083 |
| 2000 | 0.0087 |
| 2010 | 0.0089 |
The elementary known use of the noun Leonid is in the 1870s.
OED's earliest evidence for Leonid psychiatry from 1877, in the hand of George F.
Chambers.
Leonid commission a borrowing from Latin, conglomerate with an English element.
Etymons:Latinleōn-, ‑idsuffix2.
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