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leven

/ˈlɛvən/

leven is the pronunciation spelling of eleven.

leven is the alternative spelling of levin.

leven is the obsolete spelling of leaven.

Meaning of eleven

Numeral

eleven

  1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
    • It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8

See all 5 meanings of eleven

Meaning of levin

Noun

levin (countable and uncountable, plural levins)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.
    • His soul was like the night around us now, dark, and sultry, and silent, but lighted up by the red levin of wrath and torn by the bellowings of thunder-passion.1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Leven

Leven

  1. A coastal town in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3800).
  2. A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1045).
  3. A short river in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, which flows from Loch Lomond to the Firth of Clyde.
  4. A river in Perth and Kinross council area and Fife council area, Scotland, which flows from Loch Leven to the Firth of Forth at the town of Leven.
  5. A short river in Cumbria, England, which flows from Lake Windermere to Morecambe Bay on the Irish Sea.
  6. A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows into the River Tees.
  7. A Scottish earldom.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Leven

Leven (plural Levens)

  1. A surname.

Forms of leven

Numeral
alternative form'leven
alternative formleben
Verb
third-person singular presentlevens
present participlelevening
past participlelevened
pastlevened
Proper noun
pluralLevens

Origin of leven

See eleven.

See levin.

See leaven

Words formed from leven

Words that rhyme with leven

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about leven

What does leven mean?
Leven means a coastal town in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3800).
What is leven the pronunciation spelling of?
Leven is the pronunciation spelling of eleven.
What part of speech is leven?
Leven is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce leven?
Leven is pronounced /ˈlɛvən/.

Words near leven in the dictionary

  1. levels to the ground
  2. levels up
  3. levels with
  4. levelwise
  5. levemopamil
  6. leven
  7. Levendale
  8. Levene
  9. levened
  10. Levenes
  11. Levengood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leven (page history and authors); Leven (page history and authors); eleven (page history and authors); levin (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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