Leonine in a sentence

Leonine meaning

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.
2. Of a facies (“a person's facial features”): resembling those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis (“a medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the cranial and facial bones”); also, of leprosy: causing a lionlike facies.

Using Leonine

• The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike. | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike. | Of a facies (“a person's facial features”): resembling those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis (“a medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the cranial and facial bones”); also, of leprosy: causing a lionlike facies.
• Useful related words include: big cat, cat.
• Possible Dutch translations are: leeuwen-.
• In the example corpus, leonine often appears in combinations such as: of leonine.

Context around Leonine

• Average sentence length in these examples: 17.5 words
• Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 1 end
• Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Leonine

• In this selection, "leonine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 17.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, studios and features stand out and add context to how "leonine" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include acquisitions as leonine we have and productions of leonine or co. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "leonine" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.