Loeb

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Loeb

  • /ləʊb/ UK
  • /loʊb/ US

Rhymes with -əʊb

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Löb, from a dialectal variant of Löwe (“lion”).

proper noun

  1. A surname from German or from Yiddish [in turn from the Germanic languages]; variant form Löb.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cecil, leopold, web, antimicrobial, lop, lob, section, segment, division, part, portion, sector, region, piece, subdivision, projection

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DeutschLöb
עבריתלייב

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MLA

"Loeb." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/loeb. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Loeb. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/loeb

Chicago

"Loeb." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/loeb.

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@misc{loeb_2026,
  title = {Loeb},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/loeb},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}