Levant Definition

lə-vănt
levants
verb
To abscond, as to avoid paying one's debts.
Webster's New World
noun

Levant morocco.

Webster's New World
A heavy, coarse-grained morocco leather often used in bookbinding.
American Heritage

A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.

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Synonyms:
pronoun
The countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea variously.
A. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine.
B. Turkey, Cyprus, (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine), Egypt.
C. Greece, (Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt).
Wiktionary

An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea.

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adjective

(heraldry) Rising, of an animal.

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(law) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.

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(poetic) Eastern.

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Other Word Forms of Levant

Noun

Singular:
levant
Plural:
levants

Origin of Levant

  • French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising"), form of lever (“to rise"), from Latin levō (“to rise"), from levis (“light, not heavy").

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably after the Levant used as an example of a faraway place to which a person might abscond (perhaps with a pun on leave)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“be stolen away").

    From Wiktionary

  • From French levant.

    From Wiktionary

  • After the Levant

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Levant Sentence Examples

  • But it is in the domestic architecture of Venice that we find the most striking and characteristic examples of Gothic. The introduction of that style coincided with the consolidation of the Venetian constitution and the Gothic development of Venetian commerce both in the Levant and with England and Flanders.

  • Wheat, coal, cotton, petroleum, wood, lime and cement are brought into Venice for shipment to the Levant or for distribution over Italy and Europe.

  • The result of the first three Crusades was that Venice acquired trading rights, a Venetian quarter, church, market, bakery, &c., in many of the Levant cities, e.g.

  • The fall of Tyre marks a great advance in development of Venetian trade; the republic had now passed beyond the Adriatic, and had taken an important step towards that complete command of the Levant which she established after the Fourth Crusade.

  • The growth of Venetian trade and wealth in the Levant roused the jealousy of Genoa and the hostility of the imperial court at Constantinople, where the Venetians are said to have numbered 200,000 and to have held a large quarter of the city in terror by their brawls.

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