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leveller

leveller is the comparative form of level.

Noun (1)

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
    • 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.1833, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 16, in The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons
  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...
    • […] 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...1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 17, in The Luck of Barry Lyndon
  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

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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Noun (2) capitalized: Leveller

Leveller (plural Levellers)

  1. A member of the Levellers.

Forms of leveller

Adjective
alternative formleveler
Noun
plurallevellers
pluralLevellers

Origin of leveller

From level + -er.

Words formed from leveller

Questions about leveller

What does leveller mean?
Leveller means a person or thing that levels.
What is leveller the comparative form of?
Leveller is the comparative form of level.
What part of speech is leveller?
Leveller is a noun.
What is the plural of leveller?
The plural of leveller is levellers.

Words near leveller in the dictionary

  1. levelled off
  2. levelled out
  3. levelled to the ground
  4. levelled up
  5. levelled with
  6. leveller
  7. levellers
  8. levelless
  9. levellest
  10. levelling
  11. levelling down

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