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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Love is a burr upon the floor, Love is a thief behind the door; Who loves leman for her breath May quench his fire and cry for death!
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
And drink unto the leman mine; And a merry heart lives long-a.
From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
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
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 D. Laing Purves
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 D. Laing Purves
This time, the guiding protagonist is Leman, her paternal grandmother.
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
The isles of Lake Leman serve for commercial and communal purposes.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
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
The First Consul was scheming to annex the canton of Valais to the two departments of Mont Terrible and Léman, which he had already taken from the Helvetian territory.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
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