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LEES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lees mean?
• LEES (noun)
The noun LEES has 1 sense:
1. the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
Familiarity information: LEES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("lees" is a kind of...):
deposit; sediment (matter that has been deposited by some natural process)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
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