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English → English (gcide) Definition: Leonid Leonid \Le"o*nid\ (l[=e]"[-o]*n[i^]d), n. [From Leo: cf. F. l['e]onides, pl.] (Astron.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo. [1913 Webster]