LEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leon mean? 

• LEON (noun)
  The noun LEON has 3 senses:

1. a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain

2. a city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains

3. a city in central Mexico

  Familiarity information: LEON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains

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 ("Leon" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A city in central Mexico

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 ("Leon" is a part of...):

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

 Context examples 

Perhaps you would kindly step this way, Dr. Leon Sterndale.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To de Leon's team, these color centers, as the impurities are called, represent an opportunity to manipulate light and create a quantum repeater.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

High silken pavilions or colored marquees, shooting up from among the crowd of meaner dwellings, marked where the great lords and barons of Leon and Castile displayed their standards, while over the white roofs, as far as eye could reach, the waving of ancients, pavons, pensils, and banderoles, with flash of gold and glow of colors, proclaimed that all the chivalry of Iberia were mustered in the plain beneath them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I learned the name of it from the vicar, and I wired to make certain that Dr. Leon Sterndale’s account was true.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nathalie de Leon, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University and the lead researcher, said the diamonds could serve as quantum repeaters for networks based on qubits.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By Saint James! said he, if ye fall this day ye fall by no mean hands, for the flower of the knighthood of Castile ride under the banner of Don Tello, with the chivalry of Asturias, Toledo, Leon, Cordova, Galicia, and Seville.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bluff, said Holmes sternly, is upon your side, Dr. Leon Sterndale, and not upon mine.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard—golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar—all these were as well known in London as in Africa, and could only be associated with the tremendous personality of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion-hunter and explorer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)