lease
(noun) a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
lease, rental, letting
(noun) property that is leased or rented out or let
lease, term of a contract
(noun) the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
(verb) engage for service under a term of contract; “We took an apartment on a quiet street”; “Let’s rent a car”; “Shall we take a guide in Rome?”
lease, let, rent
(verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; “I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners”
rent, lease
(verb) let for money; “We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad”
rent, hire, charter, lease
(verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
(transitive, chiefly dialectal) To gather.
(transitive, chiefly dialectal) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
(transitive, chiefly dialectal) To glean.
(intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To glean, gather up leavings.
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
(ambitransitive, UK dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
lease (plural leases)
An open pasture or common.
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
(transitive, UK dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
(transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
(transitive) To take or hold by lease.
(intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.
lease (plural leases)
A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
The period of such a contract.
A leasehold.
lease (plural leases)
The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
• Elsea, Seale, eales, easel, easle, seale
Lease (plural Leases)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lease is the 8473rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3896 individuals. Lease is most common among White (94.43%) individuals.
• Elsea, Seale, eales, easel, easle, seale
Source: Wiktionary
Lease, v. i. Etym: [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.]
Definition: To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] Dryden.
Lease, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leased; p. pr. & vb. n. Leasing.] Etym: [F.laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.]
1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out. There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. Addison.
2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
Lease, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. lais. See Lease, v. t.]
1. A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.
2. The contract for such letting.
3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time. Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature. Shak. Lease and release a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
