lee

Meanings

1. A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
4. Calm, peace.

1. Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

1. Lees; dregs.

1. Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).

1. An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a meadow (the Anglo-Saxon for meadow being ley or leag).
2. A unisex given name.
3. A male given name derived from the surname, masculine of Leigh.
4. A female given name popular in conjoined names such as Lee Ann or Mary Lee.
5. A placename, for example:
6. A number of places in England:
7. A hamlet in Berrynarbor parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5546).
8. A small village in Ilfracombe parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS4846).
9. A suburb in the borough of Lewisham, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3974).
10. A hamlet in Romsey parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, previously in Romsey Extra parish (OS grid ref SU3617).
11. A hamlet in Hexhamshire parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9459).
12. A hamlet in Ellesmere Rural parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4032).

1. A river in County Cork, Ireland.

1. A surname from Chinese.
2. A surname from Cantonese.
3. A surname from Hokkien.
4. A surname from Teochew.
5. A surname from Mandarin.
6. A surname from Hakka.

1. A surname from Korean; alternative form of Rhee.

1. A male given name.
2. A nickname for various given names with the first syllable as Lee; Clipping of Leo, Leroy.

Etymology

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw (whence also Proto-Slavic *xlěvъ), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).