Leer

Verb

 * 1)  to look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent

Noun

 * 1) a sly or lecherous look

Noun

 * 1)  cheek
 * 2)  face; one's appearance, countenance

Anagrams

 * lere
 * reel

Adjective

 * 1) empty, destitute; wanting
 * 2) faint from lack of food, hungry
 * 3) having no load or burden

Verb

 * 1) to teach
 * 2) to learn

Adjectives for Leer
impudent; jealous; complacent; silly; half-triumphant; roguish; fawning; malignant.

Adverbs for Leer
obscenely; idiotically; spitefully; impudently; murderously; despicably; sardonically; jealously; complacently; malignantly; fawn-ingly; roguishly.

Thesaurus
Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, beat the drum, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, buoy, caution light, contemplate, dekko, dip, examine, exchange colors, eye, eyeful, flag, flag down, flare, flash, fleer, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, give a signal, give the eye, give the nod, give the once-over, glad eye, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hard look, heliograph, high sign, hoist a banner, inspect, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer at, leering look, look, look over, look-in, lustful leer, make a sign, marker beacon, nod, nudge, ogle, ogle at, parachute flare, peruse, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, pore, pore over, preview, prospect, quarantine flag, radio beacon, raise a cry, red flag, red light, regard, rocket, sailing aid, salute, sardonic grin, scene, scornful laugh, scrutinize, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sidelong look, sight, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, size up, sly look, smirk, sneer, snicker, snigger, snort, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spar buoy, speak, stop light, survey, take a long, take stock of, the eye, the nod, the wink, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, unfurl a flag, vet, view, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps derived from Etymology 2, below.

Etymology 2
From ler:, leor:, from  hleor:, from, from. Cognate with lire:, lere:,  lier:,  lyra:,  lia:,  hlýr:.

Etymology 3
lere "empty" from ġelǣre "empty, void, empty-handed". Akin to lari:, German leer:.

Etymology 4
leren "to teach" from lǣran "to teach, instruct". Akin to Old English lār "doctrine, teaching, lore". More at lore.

Verb

 * Esperanto: rigardemi
 * Finnish: (sexually),  (maliciously)
 * French:, , (sexually)
 * Italian:


 * Persian:
 * Polish: patrzeć pożądliwie
 * Russian: косо смотреть, смотреть с вожделением

Noun

 * Russian: косой взгляд, плотоядный взгляд

Noun

 * 1) leather

Synonyms

 * leder

Noun

 * 1) teachings

Derived terms

 * leermeester
 * leerstelling
 * verzamelingenleer

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From lera:, from.

Anagrams

 * lere

Noun

 * 1) camp

Adjective

 * 1) empty

Verb
leer



Etymology
lari:

Verb form
leer


 * 1) Present tense of

Verb

 * 1) to read
 * 2) * 1605, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha1, Chapter I:
 * y llegó a tanto su curiosidad y desatino en esto, que vendió muchas hanegas de tierra de sembradura para comprar libros de caballerías en que leer, y, así, llevó a su casa todos cuantos pudo haber dellos.
 * to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.
 * Quiero leer el periódico.
 * I want to read the newspaper.

Etymology
From legere:, present active infinitive of lego:.

Related terms

 * lección
 * lector
 * lectura
 * leyenda