LEVELLERS

"LEVELLERS" is a plural of: leveller.

Date "LEVELLERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Specialty Definition: LEVELLERS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Levellers (April, 1649.) A body of men that first appeared in Surrey, and went about pulling down park palings and levelling hedges, especially those on crown lands. Colonel Lilburne was lodged in prison for favouring the Levellers. (See Lilburne .) Levellers Radicals in the time of Charles I. and the Commonwealth, who wanted all men to be placed on a level with respect to their eligibility to office. Levellers (in Irish History), 1740. Agrarian agitators, afterwards called Whiteboys (q.v.). Their first offences were levelling the hedges of enclosed commons; but their programme developed into a demand for the general redress of all agrarian grievances. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: LEVELLERS

Specialty definitions using "LEVELLERS": Accephalites ♦ Fifth-Monarchy Men ♦ Whiteboys. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: LEVELLERS

Author	Quotation
Samuel Johnson	Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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Usage Frequency: LEVELLERS

"LEVELLERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.34% of the time. "LEVELLERS" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	75.34%	55	45,713
Noun (proper)	24.66%	18	82,615
Total	100.00%	73	N/A

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEVELLERS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
levellers	86
levellers lyrics	5
levellers lowland	3
floor levellers	3
the levellers	3
levellers netherlands	2
alternative levellers	2
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Anagrams: LEVELLERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-l-l-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: levelers, leveller.
	-2 letters: leveler, releves.
	-3 letters: elvers, levees, levels, levers, reeves, releve, resell, revels, seller, severe, sleeve.
	-4 letters: elver, elves, leers, levee, level, lever, reels, reeve, resee, revel, selle, serve, sever, veers, verse.
	-5 letters: eels, ells, else, ever, eves, leer, lees, reel, rees, revs, seel, seer, sell, sere, veer, vees.
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