lee Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
    Spike Lee; Shelton Jackson Lee.
  2. noun United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
    Rose Louise Hovick; Gypsy Rose Lee.
  3. noun United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
    Lee Yuen Kam; Bruce Lee.
  4. noun United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
    Tsung Dao Lee.
  5. noun leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
    Richard Henry Lee.
  6. noun soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
    Henry Lee; Lighthorse Harry Lee.
  7. noun American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
    Robert E. Lee; Robert Edward Lee.
  8. noun the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
    leeward; lee side.
  9. adjective satellite towards the side away from the wind
    downwind.

WordNet

Lee verb
Definitions
  1. , i, To lie; to speak falsely. Obs. Chaucer.
Lee noun
Etymology
F. lie, perh. fr. L. levare to lift up, raise. Cf. Lever.
Wordforms
plural Lees
Definitions
  1. That which settles at the bottom, as, of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. Lees occurs also as a form of the singular. "The lees of wine." Holland.
    A thousand demons lurk within the lee. Young.
    The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Shak.
Lee noun
Etymology
OE. lee shelter, Icel. hl, akin to AS. hleó, hleów, shelter, protection, OS. hlèo, D. lij lee, Sw. lä, Dan. læ.
Definitions
  1. A sheltered place; esp., a place; protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.
    We lurked under lee. Morte d'Arthure.
    Desiring me to take shelter in his lee. Tyndall.
  2. (Naut.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
Lee adjective
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.

Webster 1913