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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old French lebard, leupart (12c., Modern French léopard ), from Late Latin leopardus , literally "lion-pard," from Greek leopardos , from leon "lion" + pardos "male panther," which generally is said to be connected to Sanskrit prdakuh "panther, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Leopard is the name of a British double stage experimental rocket, which was launched between 1959 and 1962 eleven times from Aberporth . The Leopard has a flight altitude of 20 kilometres, a launch mass of 1.5 tons and a length of 6 metres. http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/leopard.htm ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN skin ▪ Until recent years, leopard skins fetched high prices in the fur trade. ▪ The frayed leopard skin , that left one muscled shoulder bare, of the strong-man lion tamer. ▪ My friend had a leopard skin and I had a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Panthera pardus'', a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (context: in contrast to leopardess). 2 (context: inexact) The clouded leopard (''Neofelis nebulosa''), a similar-looking large ...
Usage examples of leopard.
He headed for the fountain to wait for his grandson, treading like a snow leopard across the Himalayas, knowing a mate must be somewhere up there among the alpenglow and mist.
More carpets covered the floors, and in a curtained recess, a large angareb bed was spread with golden leopard skins dappled with black rosettes.
An Arcadian Niphetos Pardalia, or snow leopard, the woman had a glint in her eye that reminded everyone there that women were far more bloodthirsty than the men.
Turquoise were the most numerous, but other stones included rose quartz, red jasper, leopard jasper, amethyst, lapis lazuli, opal, bloodstone, tiger-eye, azurite, malachite, and more beyond reckoning.
Gee whiz, you have to think quick at school exams, but cracky, leopards are worse than school principals, I should hope.
Greens had had a lot of influence back in the 2030s, enough to override local protests and have bears, wolves, dholes, leopards and tigers and whatnot dropped into remote areas.
Just as the leopard cannot change his spots, so could I not overnight and by the simple pronouncing of words and the exchanging of rings before witnesses convert myself to a circumspect and drearily puritanical sobersides.
Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunist land crab, it will hang you and catch your jissom like a scrutable dog, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.
After them the Humarei, flagless, and marching to drum-music, their King with his leopard walking before them.
There were flightless geese instead of rabbits, little songbirds instead of mice, gigantic eagles instead of leopards, and seventeen different species of moa, giant flightless birds, eerie avian parallels to deer.
Leopard being close-hauled to weather Fogo, even those muted notes were borne away by the wind.
The leak gained on them as the oakum of the first successful fothering worked through the leak, and the passing of a new sail was a slow, exhausting business that had little evident result: the Leopard drove eastward and a little south under small sail in a rising wind, pumping day and night.
Naya Gaon crosses the road diagonally, and on this track we saw the fresh pug marks of a big male leopard.
Graf is herself a conjoined species, collectively possessing degrees in geochemistry, biology, and neuromuscular therapy, as well as owning two dogs, four snakes, six cats, and a breeding leopard gecko colony, whose population fluctuates seasonally between twelve and forty animals.
I have not time just now to attempt to trace the species of the leopard which formerly graced the arms of the English kings, but I should not be surprised if it were the guepard or chita.