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See also: Levant
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
levant (plural levants)
- A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.
Verb[edit]
levant (third-person singular simple present levants, present participle levanting, simple past and past participle levanted)
- To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:
- In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.
Translations[edit]
to abscond or run away
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
levant (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Rising, of an animal.
- 1932, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset:
- Crest, a stag regardant levant argent.
- 1977, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, Proceedings:
- [...] crest a raven levant sable issant out of a […]
- 1980, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History:
- [...] neck grene acornes proper wounded on his left sholder and at her feet there is a fawcon issant levant argent out of a crowne or.
- (law) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.
- (poetic) Eastern.
- Synonyms: oriental, eastern
- Antonyms: occidental, western, ponent
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
- Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Participle adjective of lever (“to raise”). Corresponds to Latin levantem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun; compare Italian levante.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
levant (feminine levante, masculine plural levants, feminine plural levantes)
Noun[edit]
levant m (uncountable)
Participle[edit]
levant
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “levant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
levant
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