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levellers

levellers is the plural of leveller.

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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Proper noun capitalized: Levellers

the Levellers

  1. (England, historical) A political movement active during the English Civil War and who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance.

Questions about levellers

What does levellers mean?
Levellers means a political movement active during the English Civil War and who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance.
What is levellers the plural of?
Levellers is the plural of leveller.
What part of speech is levellers?
Levellers is a proper noun.

Words near levellers in the dictionary

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

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