levant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding
    Levant morocco.
  2. noun the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
  3. verb run off without paying a debt

WordNet

Le"vant adjective
Etymology
F., p. pr. of lever to raise.
Definitions
  1. (Law) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
Le*vant" noun
Etymology
It. levante the point where the sum rises, the east, the Levant, fr.levare to raise, levarsi to rise: cf. F. levant. See Lever.
Definitions
  1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
  2. A levanter (the wind so called).
Le"vant adjective
Definitions
  1. Eastern. Obs.
    Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.
Le*vant" intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. Sp. levantar to raise, go from one place to another.
Definitions
  1. To run away from one's debts; to decamp. Colloq. Eng. Thackeray.

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