🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Ebene

Pronunciation / Transliteration: eh-beh-neh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Level/ˈlɛv.əl/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #800 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Das Spiel hat mehrere Schwierigkeitsgrade."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A position on a scale of amount, quantity, extent, or quality.

    "The game has multiple levels of difficulty."
As verb
  1. 1

    To make something flat or even.

    "He leveled the ground before building the shed."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'level' originates from the Old French 'leveler', which means 'to make level or even', derived from the Latin 'libra', meaning 'a balance'. Its meaning has evolved from a physical sense of flatness to include metaphorical uses in various contexts such as skill, status, and measurement.

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