levant

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding
  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

Etymology

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.

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Synonyms

Levant morocco

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