lee
2
7.4
- noun
- /liː/
:
sotavento
- Shadows moved in the lee of the dish.
Examples
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The two men huddled together in the lee of the block.
Fiction book (1991) -
Tugapu sat in the lee of the wall near Iste's hovel.
Fiction book (2000) -
Remember, the lee of the stone.
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We all moved into the lee of an overturned boat to escape the wind.
Fiction book (1990) -
I sat down cross-legged in the lee of a concrete wall and waited for the sun.
Academic text (2007) -
Tub crawled into the lee of the cab to get out of the freezing wind.
Fiction book (1990) -
Away from the lee of the hill, fans of wind patterned the surface like shoaling fish.
Fiction book (1990) -
I found Lester ineffectually trying to shelter himself in the lee of an oblong stone column.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's night—the horses are tethered near a fire burning in the lee of a rock.
Fiction book (1996) -
We all moved into the lee of an overturned boat to escape the wind.
Synonyms
2
6.9
The side away from the wind that is protected from it
1
5.9
The side of something protected from the wind
1
6.3
The side that is protected from the wind, for example behind a hill
A place protected from the wind, like behind a rock or hill
Antonyms
Compounds
A holiday in some southern United States on January 19 to remember the birth of Confederate General Robert E Lee
How Sheltered
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lee comes from the old English word hléo meaning 'shelter', so the lee is the 'sheltered' side or area of something that is out of the wind.