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leveret

/ˈlɛvəɹɪt/

leveret noun: a young hare less than one year old.

leveret: a young hare less than one year old
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Noun

leveret (plural leverets)

  1. A young hare less than one year old.
    • […] Shall I die like a leveret,
      Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
      I am slain!1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, act V, scene 5
    • Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
      Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
      Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
      Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller, London: H. Herringman
    Synonyms:
    hareling

leveret meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Vietnamese

leveret in Tamil

முயற்குட்டி, இளம் முயல்குட்டி

leveret in Kannada

ಮೊಲದ ಮರಿ, ಮರಿ ಮೊಲ

leveret in Vietnamese

a young hare
thỏ con, con thỏ con

Synonyms of leveret

Forms of leveret

pluralleverets

Origin of leveret

From Middle English leveret(te), from Old French leveret, diminutive of lievre (“hare”), from Latin leporem, of obscure origin.

Questions about leveret

What does leveret mean?
Leveret means a young hare less than one year old.
What is leveret in Tamil?
Leveret in Tamil is முயற்குட்டி, இளம் முயல்குட்டி. See Leveret meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is leveret?
Leveret is a noun.
How do you pronounce leveret?
Leveret is pronounced /ˈlɛvəɹɪt/.
What is the plural of leveret?
The plural of leveret is leverets.

Words near leveret in the dictionary

  1. levered
  2. levered firm
  3. levered firms
  4. Leverenz
  5. Leverenzes
  6. leveret
  7. leverets
  8. Leverett
  9. Leverette
  10. Leverettes
  11. Leveretts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leveret (page history and authors); leveret (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); leveret (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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