levant
IPA: ɫʌvˈænt
Root Word: Levant
noun
- The countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
- An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea
- A type of leather.
- A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.
verb
- To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
adjective
- (heraldry) Rising, of an animal.
- (law) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.
- (poetic) Eastern.
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Examples of "levant" in Sentences
- This culture has links to the Levant.
- Paleolithic art developed in the Levant.
- They are located primarily in the Levant.
- He was again the sovereign of the Levant.
- As for Levant, man that guy is full of it.
- They are simply not contained in the Levant.
- In the former crusader states in the Levant
- Afrocentrists are not concerned with the Levant.
- Emergence of specialized pastoralism in the Levant.
- The newspaper was distributed in Egypt and the Levant.
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