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
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
General Leman gave orders to throw up entrenchments between forts and to fill the garrison.
From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
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