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Definition of Lebanese

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Lebanon or its people. "Lebanese mountains"

Definition of Lebanese

1. Noun. A person from Lebanon or of Lebanese descent. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon, the Lebanese people or the Lebanese language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lebanese

Literary usage of Lebanese

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Persona Non Grata: The Expulsion of Civilians from Israeli-occupied Lebanon by Virginia N. Sherry (1999)
"The expulsions and other forcible transfers of Lebanese civilians from the ... Testimony from Expelled Lebanese Families Individual Lebanese and entire ..."

2. Research for Development in the Dry Arab Region: The Cactus Flower by Shadi Hamadeh, Mona Haidar, Rami Zurayk (2006)
"Over the past 50 years, the Lebanese agricultural sector has witnessed a major shift from a ... The Lebanese wars, including the Israeli invasion of 1982, ..."

3. Human Rights Watch World Report 1999 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1998)
"He added: "All the Lebanese are our friends, except those who ... Lebanese courageously came forward in 1998 in public events in Paris and Beirut to demand ..."

4. Low-Intensity Conflict in the Third World by Stephen Blank, Lewis B. Ware, Air University (U.S.). Press (1988)
"Lebanese system of government. The battle has been as much a political as a physical contest, but force has been applied for relative advantage whenever ..."

5. Civilian Pawns: Laws of War Violations and the Use of Weapons on the Israel by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch/Middle East, Arms Project (Human Rights Watch) (1996)
"The blockade was in apparent retaliation for what Israel claimed was a Lebanese army policy of harassment of residents of occupied southern Lebanon at ..."

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