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leveler

leveler is the comparative form of level.

leveler is the alternative form of leveller.

Meaning of level

Adjective

level (comparative leveler or leveller, superlative levelest or levellest)

  1. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
    • This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?
    Synonyms:
    flush
  2. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
    • We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.
  3. Unvaried in frequency.
    • His pulse has been level for 12 hours.
  4. Unvaried in volume.
    • His voice has been unchanged. It has been level for 12 hours.
  5. Calm.
    • He kept a level head under stress.
  6. In the same position or rank.
    • Young boys and girls
      Are level now with men.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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Meaning of leveller

Noun

leveller (plural levellers)

  1. (UK) A person or thing that levels.
    • A soil leveller is used to prepare the field before sowing.
    1. (UK) A device used to stabilize wobbly tables, chair legs, or other furniture.
      • I adjusted the leveller built into each leg of the table, but it still wobbled.
  2. (UK) Something that transcends people’s differences (such as social class, wealth, etc.); something that tends to eliminate advantages and disadvantages.
    • 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.1782, Elizabeth Griffith, “Domestic Amusement”, in Essays, Addressed to Young Married Women, London: T. Cadell & J. Robson, page 68
  3. (UK) A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have-nots.
    • 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...1771, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Charles I. (Continued.)”, in The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Davies, […]; [T.] Becket and...
  4. (UK) An equaliser.
    • 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.2011 January 18, David Dulin, “Cardiff 0 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC

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Forms of leveler

Adjective
alternative formleveller
Noun
plurallevelers

Origin of leveler

From level + -er.

Questions about leveler

What is leveler the comparative form of?
Leveler is the comparative form of level.

Words near leveler in the dictionary

  1. leveled off
  2. leveled out
  3. leveled to the ground
  4. leveled up
  5. leveled with
  6. leveler
  7. levelers
  8. levelest
  9. levelhanded
  10. levelhandedly
  11. levelhandedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leveler (page history and authors); level (page history and authors); leveller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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