Meaning

1 senses

  1. A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.

More definitions
  • the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
  • a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding

Examples

4 sentences

  1. The Levant has never been isolated.

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  2. There used to be lions in the Levant.

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  3. Jews are an ancient tribal people who originated in the Levant.

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  4. Dates and walnuts are commonly used in the filling for baklava made in the Levant.

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Origin

Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to s

Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea. Ultimately from Latin levō + -ant.

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Forms

plural: levants
Singularlevant
Plurallevants

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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