Meaning

1 senses

  1. To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.

    run off without paying a debt

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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Translations

1 languages

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

levants, levanting, levanted, levanted
Base formlevant · to levant
3rd person singularlevants
Present participlelevanting
Past simplelevanted
Past participlelevanted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylevant
he, she, itlevants

Past simpleLesson

all personslevanted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave levanted
he, she, ithas levanted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill levant

Word family

1 related words
Derivedlevanter

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lettuceB1leuleukemialevleveelevelB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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