Dictionary

let be en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone (see let it be).
   • Will you never let me be?
   • Another answers, ‘Let him be, ⁠He loves to make parade of pain, ⁠That with his piping he may gain The praise that comes to constancy.’ 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:
2. (archaic, intransitive) To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive).
   • Let be therefore my vengeaunce to disswade [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
3. Used to assign a value to a symbol.
   • Let f be any real-valued function on I and g be any real-valued function on J.

Forms

Deriveds

let it be · leaves of three, let it be

Translations (27)

ja ほっとく (not disturb) · fr soient (used to assign a value) · pl przestać (stop) · pl dać spokój (not disturb) · gd leig le (not disturb) · de sei (used to assign a value) · fr laisser tranquille (not disturb) · ja 放っておく (not disturb) · fi olkoon (used to assign a value) · ru оста́вить в поко́е (not disturb) · ru оставля́ть в поко́е (not disturb) · cmn 聽任 /听任 (not disturb) · fr soit (used to assign a value) · pl dawać spokój (not disturb) · tr olsun (used to assign a value) · da lade være (not disturb) · cmn 设...为 (used to assign a value) · pl przestawać (stop) · ro fie (used to assign a value) · fi antaa olla (not disturb) · fi lakata (stop) · fi jättää rauhaan (not disturb) · pl niech (used to assign a value) · da lade være (used to assign a value) · cmn 放任 (not disturb) · de in Ruhe lassen (not disturb) · ja とする (used to assign a value)