levin /ˈlɛvɪn/noun 1verb 1forms 3 noun1 •(literary, no longer used) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.His soul was like the night around us now, dark, and sultry, and silent, but lighted up by the red levin of wrath and torn by the bellowings of thunder-passion. — 1864 verb1 •(literary, no longer used) To strike, as lightning.Tremendous bursts of electric discharge levined through the clouds or lit up their under surfaces and all the rain-soaked earth, […] — 1937 formslevined · levining · levins