Levant

Borrowed from French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising”), form of lever (“to rise”), from Latin levō (“to rise”) (cf. also the present participle levāns), from levis (“light, not heavy”).

• IPA^(key): /ləˈvænt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləˈvɑnt/, /lɪˈvɑnt/, /ləˈvænt/

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• Rhymes: -ænt

the Levant

2. A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of 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).

   Synonyms: Mashreq, Greater Syria

   • 1948 October, Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm (The Second World War), volume I, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, book I (From War to War: 1919–1939), page 171:

     I see by the newspapers that the Mediterranean Fleet is leaving Malta for the Levant.

• Maghreb (western Mediterranean, literally “where the sun sets”)
• Ponant

Levant (plural Levants)

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

   Synonym: levanter

2. A type of leather.
   • 1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 173:

     [I]t was bound by G. Levitsky […] in turquoise Levant, stamped back and front with the Crosby crest in gold.

• Levant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Levant (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -valent, valent, vental

Borrowed from French Levant.

• IPA^(key): /ləˈvɑnt/, /leːˈvɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: Le‧vant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Levant m

1. Levant (a cultural region of West Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)
   • 1836, Nicolaas G. van Kampen, De Levant of Mohammedaansch Azië, vol. 3, publ. by de erven François Bohn, page 223.

     De hoofd- of liever de eenige stad des eilands, van denzelfden naam, sedert den moord van 1822 de schaduw niet meer van hetgeen zij vroeger was, plagt eene der beste plaatsen van de Levant te zijn.

     The capital - or rather the only city of the island, of the same name, no longer the shadow of what it formerly was since the murder of 1822, used to be one of the best settlements of the Levant.

   • 2008, Klaas Vansteenhuyse, Culturen gaan altijd ten onder. De zeevolkeren in het Middellandse Zeegebied (1200 voor Christus), vol. 3, Davidsfonds (publ.).

     Deze hebben een algemene vorm die goed verspreid was in de Levant tijdens de late bronstijd.

     These have a general shape that was widespread in the Levant during the Late Bronze Age.

• Levantijns

See levant.

• IPA^(key): /lə.vɑ̃/

Levant m

1. (dated) Orient (the countries of Asia)
2. Levant (a cultural region of West Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)

   Antonym: Ponant

• lavent, valent

• IPA^(key): /lěʋant/
• Hyphenation: Le‧vant

Lèvant m inan (Cyrillic spelling Лѐвант)

1. Levant (a cultural region of West Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)

Levant

1. Levant (a cultural region of West Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)