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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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
"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
And drink unto the leman mine; And a merry heart lives long-a.
From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
But thou shalt journey in the same coach whereon thy leman clambered up to the trap-door, and Master Hansen shall sit on the coach-box and drive thee himself.
From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold
Grandma Leman was born into a wealthy Albanian family in 1918.
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
"It's a shame, sir. You are taking hostage a democratic TV show," said Leman Bleu TV Chief Editor Jeremy Seydoux, wagging his finger at the activist.
From Reuters ● May 1, 2023
To-morrow at dawn I fly from the village Back to the peace of the waters of Leman.
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
She had grown to love Lac Léman and the mountains amid which it lay.
From The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
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