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Adjective: lee  lee
  1. Towards the side away from the wind
    - downwind
Noun: lee  lee
  1. The side of something that is sheltered from the wind
    - lee side, leeward
     
  2. (sailing) a protected cove or harbour, out of the wind
Noun: Lee  lee
  1. American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
    - Robert Edwin Lee, Robert E. Lee, Robert Edward Lee
     
  2. Soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
    - Henry Lee III, Henry Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee
     
  3. Leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
    - Richard Henry Lee
     
  4. United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1940-1973)
    - Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam
     
  5. United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
    - Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Louise Hovick
     
  6. United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
    - Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee
     
  7. 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, Tsung Dao Lee

Sounds like: lazing, las, lee, lea, li, Lee, L

Derived forms: lees

See also: leeward

Type of: actor, American Revolutionary leader, ecdysiast, exotic dancer, face, film maker, film producer, filmmaker, full general, general, histrion, movie maker, nuclear physicist, peeler, player, pongo [Brit, informal], role player, side, soldier, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser, thespian

Encyclopedia: Lee, Massachusetts