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say it: lee-AW-ni-duhz
leonidas is a noun meaning "king of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where he was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC)". It is pronounced /liˈɔnɪdəz/ — lee-AW-ni-duhz. It carries one recorded sense.
king of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where he was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC)
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 leonidas 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.