meaning of levant
1. Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
2. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
3. A levanter (the wind so called).
4. Eastern.
5. To run away from ones debts; to decamp.
6. the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon and Syria and Israel
Related Words
levant | levant cotton | levant garlic | levant morocco | levanter | levantine |
