lea

Meanings

1. An open field, meadow, pasture.

1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

1. A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.

1. An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.

1. A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
2. A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
3. A village and civil parish in south-east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6521).
4. A village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4930).
5. A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286).
6. A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586).
7. A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, merged into Doddington and District civil parish in 2023.

1. Initialism of law enforcement agency.
2. Initialism of local education authority.
3. Initialism of local electoral area.

Etymology

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“in placenames”)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse lō (“clearing, meadow”).