leap

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To jump high or a long way.

   The cat leaped onto the windowsill.

2. 2
   noun

   A jump.

   He made a leap across the stream.

3. 3
   noun

   A sudden large change or improvement.

   Moving to the city was a big leap for her career.

4. 4
   verb

   To move or change suddenly from one thing to another.

   He leaped to fame after his first film.

Common collocations

• leap year Adjective + noun

From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop. Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlau…

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