Meaning & use
Leal
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Loyal, faithful, and true, especially in devotion to a person or cause.
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The old ballad praises the leal servant who never abandoned his master.
She remained leal to her childhood friends despite years of distance.
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Chiefly found in Scots and older literary English, the word survives in the phrase "the land o' the leal," meaning heaven.
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