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• leman
  leman

  noun

  a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
• Leman
  Leman

  noun

  Lake. Lake of Geneva.
• Léman
  Léman

  noun

  the French name for (Lake) Geneva

leman

¹ American  

[lem-uhn, lee-muhn] / ˈlɛm ən, ˈli mən /

noun

Archaic.

1. a sweetheart; lover; beloved.

2. a mistress.

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Leman ² American  

[lee-muhn] / ˈli mən /

noun

1. Lake. Lake of Geneva.

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leman ¹ British  

/ ˈliː-, ˈlɛmən /

noun

1. a beloved; sweetheart

2. a lover or mistress

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Léman ² British  

/ lemɑ̃ /

noun

1. the French name for (Lake) Geneva

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Etymology

Origin of leman

1175–1225; Middle English lemman, earlier leofman. See lief, man

Example Sentences

Then read he me how Samson lost his hairs Sleeping, his leman cut them with her shears, Through whiche treason lost he both his eyen.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

A leman had this noble champion, That highte Dejanira, fresh as May; And, as these clerkes make mention, She hath him sent a shirte fresh and gay; Alas! this shirt, alas and well-away!

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

"I lo'e Brown Adam weel," she says; "I wot sae does he me: "I wad na be your light leman "For mair than ye could gie."

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Thornbury, Walter

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 Scheffauer, Herman George