leveller
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that transcends people’s differences (such as social class, wealth, etc.); something that tends to eliminate advantages and disadvantages.
British usage
noun
A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have-nots.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "A soil leveller is used to prepare the field before sowing."
- "I adjusted the leveller built into each leg of the table, but it still wobbled."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Everything about the old man was clean, if coarse; and, with Death, the leveller, so close at hand, it was the labourer who made the first advances, and put out his horny hand to the Squire."
- "The army is viewed not only as a social leveler but also as a means of unifying a country with three cultures and four languages."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder. Proto-Italic *līðrā? Latin lībra Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -la Latin libella Old French livelbor. Middle English level English level English -er English leveller From level + -er.
Usage
- British usage