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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|leden}}, {{m|enm|leaden}}, from {{inh|en|ang|lēaden||leaden, of lead}}. Cognate with {{cog|fy|leaden||leaden}}, {{cog|nl|loden||leaden}}. {{surf|+suf|en|lead|en|id2=made of}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈlɛdən/}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛdən|s=2}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# {{lb|en|literary|or|dated}} Made of [[lead]].
# Pertaining to or resembling [[lead]]; [[grey]], [[heavy]], [[sluggish]].
#* {{RQ:Keats Lamia|poem=Ode to a Nightingale|stanza=3|page=109|passage=Where but to think is to be full of sorrow / And leaden-eyed despairs, / Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, / Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.}}
#* '''1818-1819''', {{w| Percy Bysshe Shelley}}, ''Julian and Maddalo''
#*: [...] if man be<br>The passive thing you say, I should not see<br>Much harm in the religions and old saws<br>(Tho' I may never own such '''leaden''' laws)<br>Which break a teachless nature to the yoke.
# [[dull|Dull]]; darkened with overcast.
#: {{synonyms|en|faint|wan|Thesaurus:dim}}
#: {{ux|en|the sky was '''leaden''' and thick}}
#* '''1999:''' ''Stardust'', Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
#*: "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the '''leaden''' skies in continual drizzling showers."

====Derived terms====
{{der2|en|fly with leaden wings|leaden-hearted|with leaden wings|leaden flycatcher}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|made of lead}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|رَصَاصِيّ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|свінцо́вы}}, {{t|be|валавя́ны}}, {{t|be|алавя́ны}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|оло́вен}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|olověný}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|loden}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lyijyinen}}
* German: {{t+|de|bleiern}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|plumbeo|m}}
* Latin: {{t|la|plumbeus}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|оловен}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|ołowiany}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|plúmbeo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|свинцо́вый}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|luaidheach}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|о̏ло̄ван}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|ȍlōvan}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|olovený}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|svinčen}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|plúmbeo}}, {{t+|es|plomizo}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|kurşun}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|свинце́вий}}, {{t|uk|оли́в'яний}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|בלײַען}}
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{{trans-top|pertaining to or resembling lead}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|оловносив}}, {{t|bg|оловно сив}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|olověný}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lyijyinen}}
* Latin: {{t|la|plumbeus}}, {{t|la|plumbārius}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|plúmbeo}}, {{t|pt|plúmbico}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|luaidheach}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|plúmbeo}}, {{t+|es|plomizo}}
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{{trans-top|dull}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|lyijynharmaa}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ólomszürke}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|plumbeo}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|plúmbeo}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|cubierto}}, {{t+|es|nublado}}
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===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To make or become dull or overcast.

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=adeeln|Delena|andele|aneled|leaned|nealed}}

==Middle English==

===Etymology 1===

====Verb====
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|leden|t=to lead|id=to lead}}

===Etymology 2===

====Adjective====
{{head|enm|adjective}}

# {{alt form|enm|leden|t=leaden|id=leaden}}

==Old English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{ang-IPA|lēaden}}

===Adjective===
{{ang-adj|head=lēaden}}

# {{alt form|ang|līeden}}

====Declension====
{{ang-adecl|lēaden}}