Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that levels.
- noun One who advocates the abolition of social inequities.
- noun A member of an English radical political movement arising in the Parliamentarian forces of the 1640s and advocating universal male suffrage, equality before the law, parliamentary democracy, and religious tolerance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a secret society of rebels in Ireland in the latter half of the eighteenth century: named from their principles and the leveling of park palings and walls, practised by them.
- noun In currying, a composition used to eradicate the grease before leather is dyed.
- noun In golf, a hole of such length that no player can reach the green in one stroke and any player can reach it in two strokes.
- noun A person who uses an engineer's level; a member of an engineering or surveying party.
- noun One who levels or makes even; one who or that which brings or reduces to a level, or destroys by leveling: as, time is the great leveler.
- noun One who desires or strives to bring men to a common level; one who would level social distinctions, or who disregards differences of rank or status.
- noun [capitalized] One of a party which arose in the army of the Long Parliament about 1647.
- noun A screw or other device fitted to the leg of a billiard-table or to any piece of apparatus for adjusting the table or apparatus to a true level.
- noun An earth-scraper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, levels.
- noun One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
comparative form oflevel : morelevel - noun A person or thing that
levels . - noun A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the
haves and thehave nots .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions
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Examples
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Three of the officers were of Cromwell's party; the fourth, Captain Zachariah Scarborough, was a "leveler" -- a hater of kings, a Dutch-bred pioneer of Dutch-bred democracy.
The Cost 1904
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Captain Zachariah Scarborough, was a "leveler" -- a hater of kings, a
The Cost David Graham Phillips 1889
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Receiving hospice care seems to be a "leveler" for blacks, says Lauren Harris-Kojetin, one of the study's authors.
Study: Blacks less likely to have living wills, medical directives 2011
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Receiving hospice care seems to be a "leveler" for blacks, says Lauren Harris-Kojetin, one of the study's authors.
Study: Blacks less likely to have living wills, medical directives 2011
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Or as a frightening leveler of cultures, turning so many distinct ways of life into a homogenous extension of America, the dominant English-speaking nation of the day.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Or as a frightening leveler of cultures, turning so many distinct ways of life into a homogenous extension of America, the dominant English-speaking nation of the day.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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I don't know how I could survive without my cake leveler!
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Nonetheless, it certainly is ironic to see the Internet, the great equalizer, leveler of playing fields, transformed into a giant game of Monopoly.
Monopoly Money In Silicon Valley Eric Savitz 2011
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Of course, having a Sam's Club, Costco, and a Wal-Mart Supercenter within about five miles of our house is a good price leveler.
Cuernavaca 2009
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Of course, having a Sam's Club, Costco, and a Wal-Mart Supercenter within about five miles of our house is a good price leveler.
Cuernavaca 2009
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