(plural leaves )
1 [C] a flat green part of a plant, growing from a stem or branch or from the root:
lettuce / cabbage / oak leaves * The trees are just coming into leaf. * the dead leaves of autumn / the fall
seealsoBAYLEAF, FIGLEAF
2 (-leaf, -leafed, -leaved) (in adjectives) having leaves of the type or number mentioned:
a four-leaf clover * a broad-leaved plant
3 [C] a sheet of paper, especially a page in a book:
She carefully turned the leaves of the precious volume.
seealsoFLYLEAF, LOOSE-LEAF, OVERLEAF
4 [U] metal, especially gold or silver, in the form of very thin sheets:
gold leaf
5 [C] a part of a table that can be lifted up or pulled into position in order to make the table bigger
IDIOMS
take a leaf from / out of sb's book to copy sb's behaviour and do things in the same way that they do, because they are successful
moreatNEW
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
leaf through sth to quickly turn over the pages of a book, etc. without reading them or looking at them carefully:
While I was waiting I leafed through a magazine.
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Is leaf a noun, verb, or something else?
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