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leger¹

  • /ˈlɛd͡ʒə/ UK
  • /ˈlɛd͡ʒəɹ/ US

Sounds like ledger · Rhymes with -ɛdʒə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French legier, from Old French legier, apparently from Late Latin *leviārium, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

adjective more leger · most leger

  1. obsolete Light; slender, slim; trivial.

leger²

  • /ˈlɛd͡ʒə/ UK
  • /ˈlɛd͡ʒəɹ/ US

Sounds like ledger · Rhymes with -ɛdʒə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

A variant of ledger.

adjective more leger · most leger

  1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident. a leger ambassador

noun legers

  1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government. Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome

    Similar: leiger, lieger

  2. obsolete Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  3. alternative, obsolete Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”). The Leger exhibits at one view the accounts with an individual, as it contains on the Dr. [debt] side whatever he has received, and on the Cr. [credit] side whatever he has paid. […] Let each account be posted from the Day Book in its proper place in the Leger. If a mistake be made, let it be correc

verb legers · legering · legered

  1. UK, alternative, ambitransitive Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”). Night-lines are made of water-cord, with the hooks about half-a-yard apart, baited with worms, loach, gudgeons, &c.; a brick is fastened to each end of the line to sink it, or a peg at one end and a brick at the other, and laid obliquely across the stream. They are also often taken when Legering for

Leger³

proper noun Legers

  1. A surname.

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@misc{leger_2026,
  title = {leger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}