LEEDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leeds mean? 

• LEEDS (noun)
  The noun LEEDS has 1 sense:

1. a city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry

  Familiarity information: LEEDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEEDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Leeds" is a part of...):

West Yorkshire (a metropolitan county in northern England)

 Context examples 

Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin' cured herrin's an' drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The study describes the discovery and the detailed analysis of the remains undertaken by the team from UCL, the Geological Survey of Norway, US Geological Survey, The University of Western Australia, the University of Ottawa and the University of Leeds.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team at the Universities of York and Leeds identified an assembly code in the genetic material of Hepatitis B Virus that allows it to create a protective casing in which it can produce new infectious virus particles.

(Scientists A Step Closer to Drug Treatment for Hepatitis B, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)