Leonine

What do we mean by leonine?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion. adjective

Resembling or suggestive of a lion, as in being powerful or dignified. adjective

Pertaining to or resembling a lion; lion-like: as, leonine fierceness or rapacity.

In prosody, consisting of metrical Latin hexameters or elegiacs (alternate hexameters and pentameters), in which the final word rimes with the word immediately preceding the cesural pause or the middle of the line.

Pertaining to a person named Leo, particularly to several popes of that name; more specifically, of or pertaining to Leo I., the Great (pope from 440 to 461), who is said to have added certain words to the Roman canon of the mass, and whom some have even, without good reason, described as the author of the Roman liturgy.

A coin illegally imported into England by foreign merchants in the reign of Edward I. noun

Plural Leonine verse. noun

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion adjective

A kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example adjective

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion. adjective

Of or characteristic of or resembling a lion adjective

A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.

Lion Like Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to leonine:
leonine, leontine, leonie, leonite, leonina.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word leonine:
facies, prayers, calibre, gregorian, pontifical, aquinas, rhyme, vatican, verse, entrusted, pius, xiii, leo, pope, verses, lion, canon, rome, wall, manuscript, edition, prayer, mass, hair, walls, latin, text, city, global, low, roman, italy, italian, complete, appearance.

Words that rhyme with leonine:
threonine.

Adjectives that are often used to describe leonine:
more, blooded, impetuous, rime, grown, most.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective leonine:
head, city, edition, face, facies, hexameters, mane, verses, verse, appearance, roar, aspect, hair, rhyme, courage, violence, features, period, strength, roars, text, hexameter, countenance, eyes, form, figure, expression, look, character, editors, nature, rhymes, heads, body, walls, rime, letters, grace, fades, voice, vol, popes, locks, edn, quality, faces, sacramentary, partnership, cruelty, type, fashion, quarter, presence, shouts, blonde, wall, legs, spirit, beard, contract, species, heart, encyclicals, characteristics, prayers, pete, friend, qualities, majesty, ferocity, monster, fury, teaching, figures, airs, profile, hangs, wigs, sigh, paws, shoulders, agreement, temperament, suggestion, nose, shock, growling, strategy, revival, sacramentaries.

Consonant match to leonine:
leone in, lewin in, lion in, lion inn, lorraine in, louie nunn, lyon in.

Words that sound like leonine:
leonine, lennon, lenin, lenon, lehnen, linen, linin, linnen, limine, linnane, lynen, lemon, lemmon, lean on, lean in, leinen, lannon, lonon, lenning, lenen, line in, lannan, lannen, loanin, lemman, lunen, limon, lanai, limen, lemoine, linum, lynam, lamine, limone, lungen, lemoyne, le moyne, lawine, lining, leaning, lenny, lennie, leno, lemming, layman, lumen, loaning, laymen, lawman, leonie, lehman, loman, lamen, lyman, lawmen, leman, leny, lenten, lenna, lowman, laning, lumin, leming, glennon, lenton, lanning, lamon, lymon, leeman, laman, lehmann, lamin, luman, lanham, lechon, lenni, laymon, leaman, lejeune, lohman, looning, liman, lernen, lo mein, langen, lumine, loughman, lahman, lenzen, lnn, lohmann, lernean, laumann, hennen, chenin, henen, henan, hennin, hennan, al anon.