Definition/Meaning of leap

• English - Verb: leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (obsolete) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (obsolete) lope or (obsolete) lopen) (intransitive) To jump . 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78 It is better to leap into the void. c. 1450, anonymous author, Merlin: It is grete nede a man…
• English - Noun: leap (plural leaps) The act of leaping or jumping . He made a leap across the river. 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC: Leaps from one Extream to Another , are Unnatural Motions in the Course of our lives and Humours The distance…
• English - Adjective: leap (not comparable) (not comparable) Intercalary , bissextile .
• English - Anagrams: pale , peal , plea
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English lepen , from Old English hlēapan , from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope , lowp , elope , gallop , galop , interlope , and loop . Cognate with North Frisian laap , luup , luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen…