Meaning

15 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

    the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

  2. (countable, uncountable)A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

    Blatt, Laubblatt, Blatt

    листlist, ли́стьяlístʹja, листlist

    листlyst

  4. (countable, uncountable)A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

    Blatt

    листlist, листы́listý

  5. (countable, uncountable)A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

    gold leaf

    листlist, листы́listý

  6. (countable, uncountable)One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.

  7. (countable, in the plural, uncountable)Tea leaves.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A flat section used to extend the size of a table.

    Platte

    листlist, ли́стьяlístʹja

    hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

  9. (countable, uncountable)A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

    The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.

  10. (countable, uncountable)In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

    Blatt

  11. (countable, uncountable)The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.

  12. (countable, uncountable)One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

Examples

155 sentences
  1. A dead leaf fell to the ground.

    Сухий лист впав на землю.

    deEin trockenes Blatt fiel zu Boden.

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  2. I've turned over a new leaf.

    ruЯ перевернул новую страницу.

    deIch habe ein neues Kapitel aufgeschlagen.

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  3. He turned over a new leaf in life.

    deEr schlug im Leben ein neues Kapitel auf.

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  4. Tom wants to turn over a new leaf.

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  5. I want to turn over a new leaf.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
part of a plant:
Русский
By meaning 2
part of a plant:
anything resembling the leaf of a plant:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
part of a plant:
flat section used to extend a table:

Origin

From Middle English lef, leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from

From Middle English lef, leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“to cut off”).

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Forms

plural: leaves
Singularleaf
Pluralleaves

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book):folio
  • the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants:leafagefoliage

Word family

262 related words

See also

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