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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--lea This week's theme: short words. lea (lee, lay) noun A grassland. [From Old English leah (meadow). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leuk- (light) that has resulted in other words such as lunar, lunatic, light, lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, translucent, lux, and lynx.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." Thomas Gray; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. X-Bonus Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

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