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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne