Meaning and Origin
What does the name Ledger mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Utah, U.S. says the name Ledger is of American origin and means "Its a name of a book".
- A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads. Alt. spell.: leger
- [Arch]
- A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
Oxf. Gloss. - A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.
Alt. spell.: ligger
- A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
Etymology: Akin to D. legger layer, daybook (fr. leggen to lay, liggen to lie), E. ledge lie. See Lie to be prostrate
- An accounting journal as a physical object
- A record in which commercial accounts are recorded
From Middle English lygger, liǧǧer, leger (“large breviary; beam, plank; dweller, inhabitant”), from leggen, liǧǧen, leyen, variants of līen (“to lie down; to bow, kneel, prostrate; to die; to be located (somewhere); to remain in place, stay”), from Old English liċġan (“to lie down; to be situated”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie down”). The word is cognate with Dutch legger (“daybook; layer”) (from leggen (“to lay”), liggen (“to lie down”)), and is related to English ledge, lie (“to be prostrate”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
- A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records; a record book, a register.
- A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
- (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
- (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
- Synonym: ligger
- (fishing) Short for ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).