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Definition of Levant

1. Verb. Run off without paying a debt.

2. Noun. A heavy morocco often used in bookbinding.

3. Noun. The former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

Definition of Levant

1. a. Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

2. n. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

3. a. Eastern.

4. v. i. To run away from one's debts; to decamp.

Definition of Levant

1. Proper noun. The countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea variously: ¹

2. Proper noun. An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea ¹

3. Noun. Disappearing or absconding after losing a bet. ¹

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

5. Adjective. (heraldry) Rising, of an animal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Levant

1. to avoid a debt [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Levant

Leuctra Leudet's tinnitus Leukaemia inhibitory factor Leukeran Leukocytozoon Leukothea Leukovirus Leuwenhoek Lev's disease Lev's syndrome

Lev. Lev Davidovich Bronstein Lev Davidovich Landau Lev Ivanov Levaditi stain Levant Levant cotton Levant garlic Levant morocco Levantine

Levantine Arabic Levenshtein distance Levenshtein distances Levi Levi's Levi-Strauss Levin tube Levinea Levinea amalonatica Levinea diversus

Literary usage of Levant

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

1. American Book Prices Current by Katherine Kyes Leab, Daniel J Leab (1903)
"8vo, levant morocco, uncut. With the original wrappers bound in. ... 8vo, levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by David. With the original covers bound in. ..."

2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1895)
"THE CYANE AND THE levant. for she was fast falling behind and to leeward. She was signalled, therefore, to tack ship. Stewart had hoped that one of the ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1842)
"So that Egypt and Syria furnished about one seventh of the commodities imported from Turkey, and absorbed about one half those exported into the levant. ..."

4. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1908)
"THE LOST levant A MYSTERY OF THE PACIFIC a September,, the United States sloop of ... Meantime, shortly after the failure of the levant to arrive at Panama, ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1819)
"Voyage dans le levant, &c. ; ie Travels in the levant, in 1817 and 1818, ... and that his desire of visiting the levant induced him to sell a patrimonial ..."

6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"WAR IN THE levant (1839 AD) Once only during the reign of the emperor Ferdinand did the foreign relations of Austria assume a threatening appearance. ..."

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