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.
-
a mistress.
Leman
2
American
[lee-muhn]
/ ˈli mən /
noun
leman
1
British
/ ˈlɛmən, ˈliː- /
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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It was a maid lay sick of love,All for a leman fair;And it was three of her bower-maidensThat came to comfort her.
From Ballads, Lyrics, and Poems of Old France by Andrew Lang
‘If ye have loved ’twas a false false love,And an ill leman was he;But her true love had angel’s eyes,And as fair was his sweet body.
From Ballads, Lyrics, and Poems of Old France by Andrew Lang
"O gae ye down to yon laigh house, I sall pay there your lawing; And as I am your leman trew, I'll meet ye at the dawing."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
A faithless wife first brought the strangers to our shore here, MacMurrough's wife and her leman, O'Rourke, prince of Breffni.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
She is no leman of Richard of Woodville--Sir Richard, by the mass! for I have heard to-day he has been made a knight.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Even if Leman isn’t our grandmother, she is, by the end, our grand mirage.
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
"We found that interesting because we often have the image of the Leman Lake as a big Alpine lake with crystal waters but it's not really the case," he said, using the French name.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2023
—I shall be extremely obliged by any account as to the succession of the disputed Leman Baronetcy or estates.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
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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