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levy¹
- /ˈlɛ.vi/ UK, US
Sounds like levee · Rhymes with -ɛvi
Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from
lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
verb levies · levying · levied
- To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. to levy a tax
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority. If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
- To draft someone into military service.
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc. Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- To wage war.
- To raise, as a siege. Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
- To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up. The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
noun levies
- The act of levying.
- A conscription action. 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- A tax paid in money. The Irish levies.
- A tax in kind.
- Requisitioned supplies.
- A body of conscripts. To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who
- A shilling.
levy²
- /ˈlɛ.vi/ UK, US
Sounds like levee · Rhymes with -ɛvi
Where it comes from
Contraction of elevenpence.
noun levies
- The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
Levy³
- /ˈlɛ.vi/ UK, US
- /ˈliː.vi/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ɛvi
Where it comes from
From the biblical name Levi. Unlike the biblical spelling, which descended through continuous liturgical traditions that preserved final secondary stress (causing it to shift to IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈliːvaɪ/), the surname was re-introduced into English after the 1650s via French Lévy and German Levy. The pronunciation IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈlɛvi/ arose from assimilation to the common noun levy, while IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈliːvi/ preserves the historical long vowel of the first syllable without final stress.
proper noun Levie
- A Jewish surname from Hebrew. On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appo
- A male given name.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina, United States.
Levy⁴
- /ˈlɛ.vi/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ɛvi
Where it comes from
From Czech Levý, from the adjective levý (“left”).
proper noun Levie
- A surname from Czech.
Levy⁵
- /ˈlɛ.vi/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ɛvi
Where it comes from
Shortening of Irish Mac Duinnshléibhe (“son of the chief on the mountain”), from mac (“son”) + donn (“noble”) + sliabh (“mountain”).
proper noun Levie
- A surname from Irish.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: conscript, recruit, impose, raise, taxation, charge, chargeable, tax, payment, surcharge, chargeback, debiting, procurement, assessment, debit, donation
Translations
Every language
verb to impose a tax
| 日本語 | 課す kasu |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 課稅 /课税 kèshuì |
| Français | lever |
| Deutsch | erheben |
| Italiano | imporre |
| Română | impozita, taxa |
| Русский | взима́ть vzimátʹ |
verb to confiscate property
| 日本語 | 差し押さえる sashiosaeru |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | einziehen, in Beschlag nehmen |
verb to draft into military service
| Español | reclutar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 徴兵する chōhei suru |
| Português | convocar |
| Deutsch | einziehen |
| Română | recruta |
verb to wage war
| 日本語 | 開戦する kaisen suru |
|---|
noun act of levying
| हिन्दी | उगाही ugāhī |
|---|---|
| Français | impôt, prélèvement, taxe |
| Deutsch | Erhebung, Abgabenerhebung, Umlagenerhebung |
| Română | impozitare, taxare |
| Русский | сбор sbor, взима́ние vzimánije, обложе́ние obložénije |
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title = {levy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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