leopard

noun
🔊/ˈlepəd/
🔊/ˈlepərd/
Idioms
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  1. a large animal of the cat family, usually with yellow-brown fur with black spots. Leopards live in Africa and southern Asia.
    compare leopardess, pantherTopics Animalsb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryLeopard is used before these nouns:
    • skin
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    Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from late Latin leopardus, from late Greek leopardos, from leōn ‘lion’ + pardos.
Idioms
a leopard cannot change its spots
  1. (saying) people cannot change their character, especially if they have a bad character本性难改;禀性难移
    • You didn’t really expect her to be on time, did you? A leopard can’t change its spots.您真的没想到她会准时,对吗?豹子不能改变它的位置。