laver

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)
  2. noun (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
  3. noun edible red seaweeds

Etymology

From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver

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