leafy
English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
- enPR: lēfʹē, IPA(key): /ˈliːfi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːfi
Adjective
leafy (comparative leafier, superlative leafiest)
- Having or bearing leaves.
- leafy trees; leafy vegetables
- Containing much foliage.
- Synonym: lush
- a leafy avenue
- 2019 February 13, Emily Dixon, “China and India are making the planet greener, NASA says”, in CNN[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 11 June 2024:
- The Earth is facing a climate crisis, but it’s also getting greener and leafier. According to new research, the rise is largely courtesy of China and India.
- (by extension, of a populated place) Wealthy; middle- or upper-class.
- They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.
- 2008 January 23, Robert Syms, “Housing and Regeneration Bill: Exclusions from Subsidy Arrangements”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)[2], archived from the original on 22 July 2024, column 392:
- Those are not necessarily the leafiest areas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a very leafy place in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.
- 2014 July 21, Kyle Caldwell, “Income tax league table: the towns that pay the most and least tax in Britain”, in The Daily Telegraph[3], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 August 2025:
- Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in the leafiest areas of the country pay three times this amount.
- 2014 October 10, Fraser Nelson, “Clacton by-election: The Tories cannot fight for leafy areas and forget the poor”, in The Daily Telegraph[4], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 December 2025:
- The Tories plan to give their all against the other Ukip defector, Mark Reckless, in the more prosperous Rochester & Strood next month. But this plays to the stereotype: Tories fighting for leafy areas, hiding from the poorer ones.
- 2025 July 11, Barbara Speed, “I loved Girls – but could I trust Lena Dunham to write about London?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[5], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 July 2025:
- In an essay for the New Yorker about her own move, also prompted by a breakup, Dunham contrasts the chaotic grit of New York with the “spaciousness” of London – a city that “doesn’t jangle me”. Dunham, as you may by now be sensing, lives in one of the leafier parts of north London.
- In the form of layers or leaves (of some material).
- Resembling a leaf.
- Synonyms: leaf-shaped, leaflike, foliate, foliform
- 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN[6], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 11 June 2025:
- Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
Derived terms
Translations
having or bearing leaves
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containing much foliage
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in the form of layers or leaves (of some material)
resembling a leaf
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewbʰ- (cut off)
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