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Webster 1913 Edition

Leopard

Leop′ard

(lĕp′ẽrd)
,
Noun.
[OE.
leopart
,
leparde
,
lebarde
,
libbard
, OF.
leopard
,
liepart
, F.
léopard
, L.
leopardus
, fr. Gr.
λεόπαρδος
;
λέων
lion +
πάρδοσ
pard. See
Lion
, and
Pard
.]
(Zool.)
A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (
Felis leopardus
). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (
Felis pardus
) is regarded as a variety of leopard.
Hunting leopard
.
See
Cheetah
.
–
Leopard cat
(Zool.)
any one of several species or varieties of small, spotted cats found in Africa, Southern Asia, and the East Indies; esp.,
Felis Bengalensis
.
–
Leopard marmot
.
See
Gopher
, 2.

Webster 1828 Edition

Leopard

LEOPARD

,
Noun.
lep'ard. [L. leo, lion, and pardus, pard. Gr. from Heb. to separate, that is, spotted, broken into spots.]
A rapacious quadruped of the genus Felis. It differs from the panther and the once in the beauty of its color, which is of a lively yellow, with smaller spots than those of the two latter, and disposed in groups. It is larger than the once and less than the panther. This animal is found in Africa and Asia, and so rapacious as to spare neither man nor beast.

Definition 2024

Leopard

Leopard

See also: leopard, léopard, and leopárd

German

Noun

Leopard m ‎(genitive Leoparden, plural Leoparden, feminine Leopardin)

  1. leopard

Usage notes

The word may follow either weak or strong declension. In the genitive singular, it is almost always weak; in the accusative and dative however, both the weak and strong forms are possible, the former predominant in writing and the latter in speech.

Declension

leopard

leopard

See also: Leopard, léopard, and leopárd

English

A leopard

Alternative forms

Noun

leopard ‎(plural leopards)

  1. Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).
    • 1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, 1992, page 284,
      During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.
    • 1998, Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel, page 201,
      The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
    • 2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197,
      Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
  2. (inexact) The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), a similar-looking large wild cat native to Asia.
    • 2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, p. 81:
      There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
  3. (inexact) The snow leopard (Uncia uncia), a similar-looking large wild cat native to Asia.
  4. (heraldry) A lion passant guardant.
    The lions on the English coat of arms are sometimes called leopards.‎

Hypernyms

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Translations

See also

  • (hybrid formed by a leopard and a lioness): leopon
  • (hybrid formed by a lion and a leopardess): lipard

Anagrams

References

  1. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "leopard, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1902.
  2. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "pard, n.1" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2005.
  3. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "† pardal, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2005.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin leopardus ‎(“leopard”).

Noun

leopard

  1. leopard

Declension

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

leopard m ‎(definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leoparder, definite plural leopardene)

  1. a leopard (big cat, Panthera pardus)

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leopard m ‎(definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leopardar, definite plural leopardane)

  1. a leopard (as above)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French léopard, Latin leopardus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌle.oˈpard/
  • Hyphenation: le‧o‧pard

Noun

leopard m ‎(plural leoparzi)

  1. leopard

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lêopaːrd/
  • Hyphenation: le‧o‧pard

Noun

lȅopārd m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ле̏опа̄рд)

  1. leopard

Declension

Swedish

Noun

leopard c (pl leoparder, def sing leoparden, def pl leoparderna)

  1. leopard

Descendants

Etymology

From Middle English leopard, lebard, lubard, etc., from Old French leopard ‎(“leopard”) etc., from Late Latin leopardus ‎(“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος ‎(leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων ‎(léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος ‎(párdos, “pard, male leopard”),[1] from earlier πάρδαλις ‎(párdalis, “leopard”),[2] probably from an unattested Old Persian term ancestral to Middle Persian palang, Chorasmian plyk, Sogdian pwrδnk, and Pashto pṛāng.[3]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɛpəd/

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