Lee (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. protective shelter: The lee of the rock gave us some protection against the storm.
  2. the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind: We erected our huts under the lee of the mountain.
  3. the quarter or region toward which the wind blows.
adjective
  1. pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee.
Idioms
  1. accidentally against what should be the lee side of a sail: Careless steering brought the wind by the lee.
  2. to leeward.
noun
  1. British mystic: founder of Shaker sect in the United States.
  2. American Revolutionary general, born in England.
  3. U.S. painter.
  4. U.S. general and statesman (grandson of Henry Lee; nephew of Robert E. Lee).
  5. American Revolutionary statesman (brother of Richard H. Lee).
  6. U.S. entertainer.
  7. U.S. novelist.
  8. American Revolutionary general (father of Robert E. Lee).
  9. Singapore political leader: prime minister 1959–90.
  10. U.S. mystery writer, in collaboration with Frederic Dannay.
  11. American Revolutionary statesman (brother of Francis L. Lee).
  12. U.S. soldier and educator: Confederate general in the American Civil War (son of Henry Lee).
  13. English biographer and critic.
  14. U.S. film director, screenwriter, and actor.
  15. Chinese physicist in the United States: Nobel Prize 1957.
  16. a town in western Massachusetts: part of the Berkshire resort area.
  17. a male or female given name.
noun
  1. a sheltered part or side; the side away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
  2. so that the wind is blowing on the wrong side of the sail
  3. towards the lee
adjective
  1. on, at, or towards the side or part away from the wind
noun
  1. a river in SW Republic of Ireland, flowing east into Cork Harbour. Length: about 80 km (50 miles)
noun
  1. Ang (æŋ). born 1954, Taiwanese film director; his films include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Life of Pi (2012)
  2. Bruce, original name Lee Yuen Kam . 1940–73, US film actor and kung fu expert who starred in such films as Enter the Dragon (1973)
  3. Gypsy Rose, original name Rose Louise Hovick . 1914–70, US striptease and burlesque artiste, who appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies (1936) and in films
  4. Laurie (ˈlɒrɪ). 1914–97, British poet and writer, best known for the autobiographical Cider with Rosie (1959)
  5. Richard Henry. 1732–94, American Revolutionary statesman, who moved the resolution in favour of American independence (1776)
  6. Robert E (dward). 1807–70, American general; commander-in-chief of the Confederate armies in the Civil War
  7. Spike, real name Shelton Jackson Lee. born 1957, US film director: his films include She's Gotta Have It (1985), Malcolm X (1992), and the documentary When the Leeves Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2008)
  8. T (sung) -D (ao) (tsuːŋ daʊ). born 1926, US physicist, born in China. With Yang he disproved the principle that that parity is always conserved and shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1957
Lee (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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