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say it: LEV-uhl
level is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality". It is pronounced /ˈlɛvəl/ — LEV-uhl. It carries 19 recorded senses.
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
“a remarkable degree of frankness”
“at what stage are the social sciences?”
height above ground
“the water reached ankle level”
“the pictures were at the same level”
indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line
“park the car on the level”
not showing abrupt variations
“spoke in a level voice”
“she gave him a level look”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for level come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.