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Leger vs Lager - What's the difference?

leger | lager |

As an adjective leger

is light (not heavy).

As a noun lager is

a (sleeping) quarter, a camp.

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) ----

    lager

    English

    (wikipedia lager)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
    • Derived terms
    * lagered up * lagering * lagerphone * lager lout
    Coordinate terms
    * ale * lambic * pilsner * porter * stout * weissbier

    See also

    * ale

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

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