Leicester
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- proper noun
- /ˈlɛstər/
- We visited Leicester last summer and explored its Roman origins.
- University of Leicester
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Watch on YouTubeLike I say, I used to work through veg markets in in Leicester and it was quite a thriving business.
- Like I say, I used to work through veg markets in in Leicester and it was quite a thriving business.
- So I said how they said we're at the club in Leicester, would you be interested in bringing some people over?
- He should have got top four with Leicester City bang up.
- So take a club like Leicester.
- Yeah, so and then when Ashley left Leicester, I then he was, then he went to Crewe.
- And if you see the first half against Newcastle, like because against score it wasn't that great, West Ham and Leicester and Leicester and Leicester and Leicester.
- And I, we try the Leicester Tigers, try to run the best programme we possibly can, get good people around.
- Oh, that's, I said Leicester, purely because if they signed Lewis Dunk right from Brighton, that will make them a better team, right.
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Address for correspondence: Raphael Gillett, Department of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
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Peter Soulsby, Mayor of Leicester, went over a couple of historical highlights of the city.
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I put out all the lights in Leicester Square just by walking past.
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One day at the beginning of May... we found ourselves in Leicester Square.
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Why, this afternoon I was in Leicester Square...
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Leicester Square, and that was 10 minutes ago.
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A student studying at De Montfort University in Leicester is seeking more rewarding career prospects in farming.
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Craig Russel from the University of Leicester recently published on his blog a comprehensive dataset of UK university social media accounts.
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That work continues and in Leicester we instituted a local lockdown in order to bear down on stubborn rates of infection.
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Leicester Crown Court heard the 21-year-old also lied to the police about a burglary at his student accommodation in Loughborough.
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Etymology
Leicester gets its name from old words meaning 'people by the river' and ceaster meaning 'Roman camp' or 'town', a root you can also see in names like Manchester. That explains the city's Roman ruins and why the name is still written Leicester but spoken as 'Lester'.