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Le⋅o

  [lee-oh]
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–noun, genitive Le⋅o⋅nis  [lee-oh-nis] for 1.
1. Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
2. Astrology.
a. the fifth sign of the zodiac: the fixed fire sign.
b. a person born under this sign, usually between July 23rd and August 22nd.
3. a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “lion.”

Le⋅o I

  [lee-oh; It. le-aw]
–noun
Saint, (“Leo the Great”), a.d. c390–461, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 440–461.

Leo II

 
–noun
Saint, died a.d. 683, Sicilian ecclesiastic: pope 682–683.

Leo III

 
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1. Saint, a.d. c750–816, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 795–816.
2. (“the Isaurian”), a.d. c680–741, Eastern Roman emperor 717–741.

Leo IV

 
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Saint, died a.d. 855, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 847–855.

Leo V

 
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fl. 10th century a.d., Italian ecclesiastic: pope 903.

Leo VI

 
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pope a.d. 928.

Leo VII

 
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died a.d. 939, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 936–939.

Leo VIII

 
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died a.d. 965, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 963–965.

Leo IX

 
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Saint (Bruno), 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.

Leo X

 
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(Giovanni de'Medici), 1475–1521, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1513–21 (son of Lorenzo de'Medici).

Leo XI

 
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(Alessandro de'Medici), 1535–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1605.

Leo XII

 
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(Annibale Francesco della Genga), 1760–1829, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1823–29.

Leo XIII

 
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(Giovanni Vincenzo Pecci), 1810–1903, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1878–1903.
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Le·o   (lē'ō)   
n.   In all senses also called Lion.
  1. A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Cancer and Virgo, containing the bright stars Regulus and Denebola.
    1. The fifth sign of the zodiac in astrology.
    2. One who is born under this sign.

[Latin Leō, from leō, lion; see lion.]
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Leo

Le"o\ (l[=e]"[=o]), n. [L. See Lion.] (Astron.) 1. The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [[Leo]] in almanacs.

2. A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.

Leo Minor, a small constellation between Leo and the Great Bear.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Leo 
zodiac constellation, O.E., from L. leo "lion" (see lion). Meaning "person born under the sign of Leo" is from 1894. Leonid "meteor which appears to radiate from Leo" is from 1876. The annual shower peaks Nov. 14.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Leo   (lē'ō)  Pronunciation Key 
A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Cancer and Virgo. Leo (the Lion) contains the bright star Regulus and is the fifth sign of the zodiac.
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LEO
Low Earth Orbit

Leo
1. A general-purpose systems language, syntactically like Pascal and Y, semantically like C.
["The Leo Programming Language", G. Townsend, CS TR 84-7, U Arizona 1984].
(1996-02-06)
2. A general data management environment which can show user-created relationships among any kind data. It can also be used as an outlining editor as it embeds the noweb and CWEB markup languages in an outline context.
Leo is written in pure Python using Tk/tcl and so runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X. It isdistributed under the Python License.
(2006-07-12)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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LEO
  1. Leo
  2. low earth orbit
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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