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noun liːtlēt historical A yearly or half-yearly court of record that the lords of certain manors held. Example sentencesExamples - However, there was often an overlap in the type of business conducted in the court baron and court leet.
- There were two kinds of manorial court - the court baron and the court leet.
- Where the lord of the manor held a court leet, the jurisdiction of the hundred was exercised in that court, and the fines collected were payable to the lord.
- The whole system was governed by court leets and a set of detailed and ancient laws which are still alive and in use today.
- By the 13th century most manorial lords had established two courts, leet and baron, which met at the same place and whose proceedings followed one another.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French lete or Anglo-Latin leta, of unknown origin. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat noun liːtlēt mass nounAn informal language or code used on the Internet, in which standard letters are often replaced by numerals or special characters. Example sentencesExamples - Is it a common practice in leetspeak to vary the capitalization of the words you are typing?
- This is cool and shows that black clad Berlin marketing gurus are down with leetspeak.
- I still fondly remember the early days of the Internet when I used leetspeak to type things my parents couldn't read.
- But the whole thing conjures up images of middle class parents trying to converse with their children in "leetspeak" over breakfast.
adjective liːtlēt US informal 1(of a person) skilled at computer programming or hacking. the 1337 hacker was rerouting phone calls - 1.1 Extremely good; excellent.
this jacket is totally 1337
Origin 1990s: representing a pronunciation of elite. The form 1337 represents the conventions of leet, with 1 representing the letter L and 3 and 7 representing the letters E and T respectively. noun liːtlēt Scottish A list of candidates selected for a post. Synonyms territory, region, province, district, area, zone
Origin Late Middle English: probably from Old French lit(t)e, variant of liste 'list'. nounlēt historical (in England) a yearly or half-yearly court of record that the lords of certain manors held. Example sentencesExamples - The whole system was governed by court leets and a set of detailed and ancient laws which are still alive and in use today.
- By the 13th century most manorial lords had established two courts, leet and baron, which met at the same place and whose proceedings followed one another.
- Where the lord of the manor held a court leet, the jurisdiction of the hundred was exercised in that court, and the fines collected were payable to the lord.
- There were two kinds of manorial court - the court baron and the court leet.
- However, there was often an overlap in the type of business conducted in the court baron and court leet.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French lete or Anglo-Latin leta, of unknown origin. nounlēt An informal language or code used on the Internet, in which standard letters are often replaced by numerals or special characters that resemble the letters in appearance. she communicated in secret using leet Example sentencesExamples - I still fondly remember the early days of the Internet when I used leetspeak to type things my parents couldn't read.
- Is it a common practice in leetspeak to vary the capitalization of the words you are typing?
- But the whole thing conjures up images of middle class parents trying to converse with their children in "leetspeak" over breakfast.
- This is cool and shows that black clad Berlin marketing gurus are down with leetspeak.
adjectivelēt US informal 1(of a person) skilled at computer programming or hacking. the 1337 hacker was rerouting phone calls - 1.1 Extremely good; excellent.
this jacket is totally 1337
Origin 1990s: representing a pronunciation of elite. The form 1337 represents the conventions of leet, with 1 representing the letter L and 3 and 7 representing the letters E and T respectively. nounlēt Scottish A list of candidates selected for a post. Synonyms territory, region, province, district, area, zone
Origin Late Middle English: probably from Old French lit(t)e, variant of liste ‘list’. |