English Online Dictionary. What means levy? What does levy mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.vi/
- Rhymes: -ɛvi
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).
Verb
levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)
- (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- To draft someone into military service.
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
- To wage war.
- To raise, as a siege.
- (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
Translations
Noun
levy (plural levies)
- The act of levying.
- 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
- 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
- The tax, property, or people so levied.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Contraction of elevenpence.
Noun
levy (plural levies)
- (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
See also
- levee
- Levi
Anagrams
- Elvy, vley
Finnish
Etymology
lev- + -y; from the same root as leveä (“wide”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈleʋy/, [ˈle̞ʋy]
- Rhymes: -eʋy
- Hyphenation(key): le‧vy
Noun
levy
- plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
- board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
- slab (thick, flat piece of material)
- (computing, electronics) disk (device for storing data)
- (music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
- Ellipsis of keittolevy (“hotplate”).
Declension
Synonyms
- (plate): laatta
- (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)
Hyponyms
- (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- “levy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
- elvy