A surname from Old English derived from the English place name Leicester.
Used in a Sentence
lester
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lester.
Editorial note
Otherwise you're knee deep in lester-land[0] and all the quid pro quo corruption that results from it.
Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A surname from Old English derived from the English place name Leicester.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of lester gathered in one view.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
A number of places in the United States:
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for lester.
noun
A surname from Old English derived from the English place name Leicester.
noun
A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
noun
A number of places in the United States:
noun
A town in Limestone County, Alabama.
Example sentences
Otherwise you're knee deep in lester-land[0] and all the quid pro quo corruption that results from it.
I personally find people like Lester Bangs, Robert Christgau, Pauline Kael, and Eileen Jones incredibly enjoyable to read.
Gerald Lester - respected developer/community member, Tcl Board of Directors.
The Earth Policy Institute (holla Lester Brown) has shown how quickly China is bringing online solar and wind generation resources that already outpace their nuclear generation capacity.
Don't forget that Simon Peyton Jones 2nd book on compiling functional languages written with PJ Lester is also out of print but available from him directly on the web and includes source code from the book.
I am writing a compiler in OCaml, and I am able to use the API described in Peyton-Jones & Lester for doing pretty printing while still using imperative algorithms from the Dragon Book.
Monitoring results from 89 no-take marine reserves around the world have shown that, on average, fish density, biomass, size, and diversity all increased within marine reserves (Halpern 2003, Lester et al.
Well one of the characters matching (E, M, C), arguably two for Fort M c M urray, is still better than YYZ matching none of the characters in any of the names (Toronto, Lester B Pearson, Malton, Mississauga) of the country's largest airport!
Quote examples
Reminds me a bit of a thrift shop book I picked up a while ago, "The Coming Exploration of Space" by Lester del Rey from 1959.
I remember it being mentioned in one of Lester Del Rey's juvenile science fiction books -- possibly "Outpost of Jupiter", which according to Wikipedia was first published in 1963.
Proper noun examples
I want to give a shout-out to Andy Lester, the author of ack and this blog post.
I got Lester, IA which apparently has an off the charts population density of 464,912 people per square mile!
Andy Lester, the primary author of ack, is one of the nicest guys I know of.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use lester in a sentence?
Otherwise you're knee deep in lester-land[0] and all the quid pro quo corruption that results from it.
What does lester mean?
A surname from Old English derived from the English place name Leicester.
What part of speech is lester?
lester is commonly used as noun.