leman
noun
a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
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leman
1 American
[lem-uhn, lee-muhn]
/ ˈlɛm ən, ˈli mən /
noun
Archaic.
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a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
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a mistress.
Leman
2
American
[lee-muhn]
/ ˈli mən /
noun
leman
1
British
/ ˈliː-, ˈlɛmən /
noun
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a beloved; sweetheart
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a lover or mistress
Léman
2
British
/ lemɑ̃ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of leman
1175–1225; Middle English lemman, earlier leofman. See lief, man
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For long did the king gaze upon his dead leman; then, he softly touched with his fingers her brow, already losing the warmth of life, and with slow steps withdrew from the chamber.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
Me dreamed al this night, pardie, An elf-queen shall my leman be ...
From Foes by Mary Johnston
"Ga lufe, Makyne, quhair evir thou list,55 For leman I lue none."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
I the one, Who led the Dardan leman on his raid, To storm the chamber of the Spartan maid?
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
But there are some words of this ending, which, not being compounds of man, are regular: as, German, Germans; Turcoman, Turcomans; Mussulman, Mussulmans; talisman, talismans; leman, lemans; caiman, caimans.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Through all of this a partial picture emerges of Leman, but it remains always, to both Ms. Ypi and her readers, maddeningly incomplete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Some products are already on the market, wrote Adam Leman, a GFI scientist.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2025
Tang's team and Leman Biotech is currently working toward that goal.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
He was speaking from the stern of a sailing vessel that was dragging a sample-collecting device across Switzerland's biggest lake, also known as Lac Leman.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2023
Mrs. Winthrop had taken possession of the villa in May, and it was now late in August; Lake Leman therefore had enjoyed her society for three long months.
From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Miami, the No. 3 seed in the A.C.C., practiced Tuesday at Léman Preparatory Academy, a high school in Lower Manhattan, on a court with a rock-climbing wall off to the side.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
Léman Manhattan Preparatory School has a gym whose floor is cleaned twice a day.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2012
The site has about nine hectares, or 22 acres, of tree-dotted land, open to the public, offering panoramic views over Lake Léman and of Mont Blanc.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2011
He devoted his life to the Olympic cause and, when he was not travelling, would spend his days on Olympic business in the headquarters at Château de Vidy, on the shores of Lake Léman.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2010
The First Consul was scheming to annex the canton of Valais to the two departments of Mont Terrible and Léman, which he had already taken from the Helvetian territory.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
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