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
/ 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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‘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
He had silver oars, and so delighted the London watermen that they wrote a ballad about him, of which two lines only still exist— "Row thy boat, Norman, Row to thy leman."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
My leman fair, the charmed Moon, bends low To draw me with her webs of mute desire, And lo! beyond her magic empires glow Pale fires of sunrise and red sunset fire!
From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer
Me dreamed al this night, pardie, An elf-queen shall my leman be ...
From Foes by Mary Johnston
Tamiya takes the cast off leman of Itō Dono.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
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
The start-up Leman Biotech, co-founded by Tang and paper co-author Yugang Guo, aims to commercialize the treatment.
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
Night fell about him in Stygian darkness, While the faint lap of the waters of Leman, Beating the ramparts with madding persistence, Whispered despair in the still isolation.
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering
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
"If you'd actually tipped over into Lac Léman that night, you'd certainly have gone to the bottom if you'd had to depend on your own unaided efforts."
From The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
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