different between leeward vs alee

English

Etymology

lee (“side away from the wind”) +? -ward (“direction”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?li?w?d/, (nautical) /?l(j)u??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?liw??d/, (nautical) /?lu???d/

Adjective

leeward (comparative more leeward, superlative most leeward or leewardmost)

1. On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

Synonyms

• downwind

Antonyms

• windward

Derived terms

• Leeward Islands

Related terms

• leeway

Translations

Adverb

leeward (comparative more leeward, superlative most leeward)

1. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 23:

     Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.

   • ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:

     No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high ...

Antonyms

• windward

Translations

Further reading

• leeward on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

a (“preposition”) +? lee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li?/

Adverb

alee (comparative more alee, superlative most alee)

1. On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)

Anagrams

• eale

Alemannic German

Etymology

From French allez.

Pronunciation

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /?le/

Interjection

alee

1. come on, let's go
   • 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     Was isch jetz für Zit? Scho drü? Alee, pressier, pressier.

     What time is it? Already three? Come on, hurry, hurry.

Italian

Noun

alee f

1. plural of alea

Middle French

Noun

alee f (plural alees)

1. passage; alley

Old French

Verb

alee f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of aler

Noun

alee f (oblique plural alees, nominative singular alee, nominative plural alees)

1. route
2. departure

Descendants

• French: allée
• ? Middle English: aley, alay, alei, allee, alie
  • English: alley
  • Scots: allay
  • ? Welsh: alai

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French allée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?le.e/

Noun

alee f (plural alei)

1. allée

Declension

Spanish

Verb

alee

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of alear.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of alear.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of alear.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of alear.