leopard
A large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and AsiaA large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus).
» A leopard cannot change his spots.
Горбатого могила виправить.
Як вовка не годуй, він все одно в ліс дивиться.
Горбатого хіба гріб вирівняє.
Meaning
7 sensesA large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus).
A large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus).
(especially)The male of the species P. pardus, as distinguished from a leopardess.
(broadly)A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
(broadly)A clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa or Neofelis diardi), a large wild cat native to Asia.
(broadly)The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
A lion passant guardant.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
- large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots
- the pelt of a leopard
Examples
130 sentencesA leopard cannot change his spots.
Горбатого могила виправить.
A leopard can't change its spots.
Як вовка не годуй, він все одно в ліс дивиться.
ruЛеопард не может изменить свои пятна.
Is that a leopard?
Це леопард?
ruЭто леопард?
How are lions and leopards different?
What's the difference between lions and leopards?
ruКакая разница между львами и леопардами?
deWas ist der Unterschied zwischen Löwen und Leoparden?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”),From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier πάρδαλις (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian [script needed] (palang), Khwarezmian [script needed] (plyk), Sogdian [script needed] (pwrδnk), Pashto پړانګ (pṛāng). Compare Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”). First attested in the late 13th c. (early 13th c. as a surname).
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Forms
plural: leopardsSynonyms
6 synonyms- large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots:Panthera pardus