Associations to the word «Leiden»

Wiktionary

LEIDEN, proper noun. A city in South Holland on the Old Rhine, seat of a famous Dutch university.

Dictionary definition

LEIDEN, noun. A city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope