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Leger vs Aleger - What's the difference?

leger | aleger |

As adjectives the difference between leger and aleger

is that leger is light (not heavy) while aleger is (obsolete) gay; cheerful; sprightly.

leger

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) light; slender; slim; trivial
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
    • leger ambassador

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  • A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government; also lieger, leiger.
  • * Fuller
    • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome
  • A ledger.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in bottom fishing.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    aleger

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) gay; cheerful; sprightly
  • *
    • (Webster 1913)