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Webster 1828 Edition


Leden

LED'EN

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Noun.
Language; true meaning. Obs.

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leden

leden

English

Alternative forms

Noun

leden (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Language; speech.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.11:
      he was expert in prophecies, / And could the ledden of the gods unfold […].

Czech

Noun


leden m

  1. January

Etymology

From led = ice.

Declension

Derived terms


Danish

Adjective

leden (neuter ledet, e-form ledne)

  1. (archaic) Passed, over, finished.
    • 1826, Carl Christian Rafn, Krakas maal: eller Kvad om kong Ragnar Lodbroks krigsbedrifter og heltedød, page 25
      Glad skal jeg Øl med Aser / I Öndvege drikke / Ledne er Livets Timer / Leende gaaer jeg i Døden!
      Gladly shall I beer with the Æsir / In the seat of honour drink / The hours of life are over / Laughing, I walk to death!
    • 1820, Dansk Ordbog: I - L, page 94
      Leden adj. part. af v. lider procedo. Som er til Ende, forløben. Da vare ledne (forløbne) 4 Aar siden. Der hans meste Alder var leden (forbi). ...

Noun

leden c

  1. singular definite of lede

Verb

leden

  1. past participle, common gender of lide

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eːdən

Noun

leden

  1. Plural form of lid

Verb

leden

  1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of lijden

Anagrams


Middle English

Etymology

From Old English lædan

Verb

leden (third-person singular simple present ledith, present participle ledende, simple past ledde, past participle led)

  1. to lead
    1395 Wycliffe Bible, Romans 2:4
    Whether `dispisist thou the richessis of his goodnesse, and the pacience, and the long abidyng? Knowist thou not, that the benygnyte of God ledith thee to forthenkyng?
    1395 Wycliffe Bible, II Chronicles 25:11
    Forsothe Amasie ledde out tristili his puple, and yede in to the valei of makyngis of salt, and he killide of the sones of Seir ten thousynde.
    1395 Wycliffe Bible, Isaiah 53:7
    He was offrid, for he wolde, and he openyde not his mouth; as a scheep he schal be led to sleyng, and he schal be doumb as a lomb bifore hym that clippith it, and he schal not opene his mouth.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *leděnъ. Cognate with Russian ледяной (ledjanoj), led (ice) or sladoled (sweet ice = ice cream).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lêden/
  • Hyphenation: led‧en

Adjective

lȅden (definite lȅdenī, comparative ledènijī, Cyrillic spelling ле̏ден)

  1. icy, glacial (made of ice)
  2. full of ice
  3. cold, frigid, chilled
    ledena kava
    iced coffee
  4. crystalline, clear and transparent
  5. relating to the ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
  6. (figuratively) unwelcoming, coldhearted, unfeeling
  7. (figuratively) (of fear, doubt, or surprise) immobilizing

Declension

Usage notes

Historically, lȅdan primarily meant “of or relating to ice”, while lȅden primarily meant “made of ice”, but each was often used for the other; today, lȅden is by far the more common of the two.

Synonyms

References

  • Pero Budmani (editor) (1898-1903), Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Volume 5, JAZU: Zagreb, pp. 950-951
  • leden” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Noun

leden

  1. definite singular of led (joint)
  2. definite plural of led (step)