leveller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.
Proto-Italic *līðrā?
Latin lībra
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -la
Latin libella
Old French nivel
Old French livelbor.
Middle English level
English level
English -er
English leveller
From level + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: levellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leveler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that levels.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: A soil leveller is used to prepare the field before sowing.
gloss: A person or thing that levels.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: I adjusted the leveller built into each leg of the table, but it still wobbled.
gloss: Something that transcends people’s differences (such as social class, wealth, etc.); something that tends to eliminate advantages and disadvantages.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Conversation is not to be met with in large and mixed companies; and a card-table, considered as an universal leveller, may have its use, by placing the weak and timid on a par with the most lively and overbearing.
All the captives, the innocent as well as the guilty, gladly subscribed to the terms; for they found themselves in a temporary duresse which did not admit of any fair argument of the merits of the case, and there is no leveller so effectual as a common misfortune.
Everything about the old man was clean, if coarse; and, with Death, the leveller, so close at hand, it was the labourer who made the first advances, and put out his horny hand to the Squire.
The army is viewed not only as a social leveler but also as a means of unifying a country with three cultures and four languages.
gloss: A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have-nots.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Among the independents, who, in general, were for having no eccleſiaſtical ſubordination, a ſet of men grew up called Levellers, who diſallowed all ſubordination whatſoever, and declared that they would have no other chaplain, king, or general, but Chriſt. They declared that all men were equal; that all degrees and ranks should be levelled, and an exact partition of property eſtabliſhed in the nation.
[…] there was no sympathy and connection between the upper and the lower people of the Irish. To one who had been bred so much abroad as myself, this difference between Catholic and Protestant was doubly striking; and though as firm as a rock in my own faith, yet I could not help remembering my grandfather held a different one, and wondering that there should be such a political difference between the two. I passed among my neighbours for a dangerous leveller, for entertaining and expressing such opinions […]
gloss: An equaliser.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Cardiff pressed for a leveller to force the tie into penalties, but Stoke comfortably held out and Walters added his second finishing from a tight angle after his first shot was beaten back to him by Heaton.
Related words: antileveling
Derived words: death is the great leveller
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tasoittaja
lang: Finnish
word: tasoitin
lang: Portuguese
word: nivelador
lang: Russian
word: уравни́тель
roman: uravnítelʹ
lang: Russian
word: выра́вниватель
roman: vyrávnivatelʹ
lang: Russian
word: ура́вниватель
roman: urávnivatelʹ
lang: Spanish
word: desnivel