leas

Open pastoral fields

Leas is the plural of lea, a literary or archaic word for an open meadow or grassland: cattle grazing in the leas.

The word survives mainly in poetry and place names.

It rhymes with "fleas."

meadows

pasture

Grazing ground for livestock

grazing · paddock · greenery · verdant · glade · dale · vale · heath · lowland · parkland

pastoral

bucolic

Idyllically rural

shepherd · flock · rustic · serenity · tranquility · sylvan · sheep · livestock · herding · agrarian

leasing

tenant

One who rents property

tenancy · sublease · rent · occupancy · termination · renewal · clause · deposit · lessee · lessor

Opposites
landscape type

leasforests

Densely treed land areas

woods · woodlands · thickets · jungles · copses

land use/cultivation

leasfarmland

Agricultural terrain

cropland · orchards · vineyards · plantations · arable land

Phrases
Family

lease, leased, leasing, leases, leaseholder, leasehold, leaser, lea, leasers

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G