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# lee

noun (the lee); adjective (lee: the lee side); also a name (Lee)

«lee» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The lee is the side of something that is sheltered from the wind, like the lee of a wall or a hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#m1)
2. On a boat the lee side is the side away from the wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#m2)
3. Lee is also a common first name and surname. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#m3)

### In the lessons

In geography and weather lessons, the lee side of a mountain is drier because rain falls on the windward side first; this is called a rain shadow. In sailing and camping, you shelter «in the lee of» a rock or a hedge. Phrases: «in the lee of», «the lee side», «leeward». As a name it is written with a capital: Lee.

### Examples

- We ate our picnic in the lee of a big rock, out of the wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#x1)
- The lee side of the mountain gets very little rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#x2)
- Sheep crowded in the lee of the stone wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#x3)
- The boat waited in the lee of the island until the storm passed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#x4)
- My friend Lee lives next door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#x5)
- Pitch your tent in the lee of the hedge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/#x6)

### Note

Mostly used in the phrase «in the lee of». The opposite is «windward» (facing the wind); «leeward» means on the lee side. As a name it needs a capital letter. Homophone: «lea» (an old word for a meadow).

## In Jewish tradition

Here "lees" means the thick bits that settle at the bottom of wine. Wine on the lees was rich and strong, and well refined.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah's feast for all peoples is read as a picture of the good world that is to come.

### Examples

- And in this mountain will the LORD of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. (Prophets ISA.25.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lee/#x1)

### Note

Mostly used in the phrase «in the lee of». The opposite is «windward» (facing the wind); «leeward» means on the lee side. As a name it needs a capital letter. Homophone: «lea» (an old word for a meadow).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lee/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lee.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «lee» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lee/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lee» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/lee.html) on Mova free.