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say it: lee
lee is a noun and adjective meaning "United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)". It is pronounced /ˈli/ — lee. It carries 9 recorded senses.
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lee come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.