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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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
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
Warn not my love, till o'er the mead The morning sun has broke: Too short, alas! the time, since here I tarried with my leman dear, In love and converse sweet.'
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
Me dreamed al this night, pardie, An elf-queen shall my leman be ...
From Foes by Mary Johnston
"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
Ms. Ypi, aghast at the “caricature” of her grandmother that was “emerging here,” resolved to get to the truth about Leman.
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
A worker for Leman Bleu is then seen in the footage attempting to remove the activist from the podium, before noticing the glue.
From Reuters ● May 1, 2023
The insincere stanzas of some of his later poems would scarcely have been written on Leman.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
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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