Leland
Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A surname from Irish.
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Washington.
A minor city in Winnebago County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in LaSalle County, Illinois.
A township and unincorporated community and census-designated place therein, in Leelanau County, Michigan.
A city in Washington County, Mississippi.
A town in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
An unincorporated community in Honey Creek, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
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Leland Weston: "Never take a position unless you are certain it can be defended any onslaught. That may sound like good advice to a general, but then, a courtroom is nothing more then a very civilized war."
My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
A more light-hearted look at English as spoken in New Zealand, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, was written by the American-born University of Otago psychology lecturer Louis Leland in 1980.
Construction The Jupiter, which carried Leland Stanford (one of the "Big Four" owners of the Central Pacific) and other railway officials to the Last Spike Ceremony.
Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb—"to dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible, torpid, powerless".
Commissioner Philip Marquis made a motion to recommend approval, which carried 4-0 with Commissioner David Leland not present for the vote.