Levant
pronunciation
How to pronounce Levant in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce Levant in American English:
US
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- Verb:
- run off without paying a debt
Word Origin
- Levant
- "Mediterranean lands east of Italy," late 15c., from Middle French levant "the Orient," from present participle of lever "to rise" (from Latin levare "to raise;" see lever). The region so called in reference to the direction of sunrise.
Example
- 1. One european foreign minister calls it " a small yugoslavia in the levant " .
- 2. Soleil levant by impressionist claude monet , one of four paintings stolen from the buehrle collection in zurich in february 2008 .
- 3. " Traces of her remain , and based on those traces ...... we can reconstruct her role in the religions of the southern levant , " he told discovery news .
- 4. Judith herrin , a professor at king 's college london , sets out to show that there are far better reasons to study and admire the civilisation that flourished for more than a millennium before the conquest of constantinople in 1453 , and whose legacy is still discernible all over south-east europe and the levant .
- 5. Each one contains a torque generator that converts the kinetic energy from the stalk into energy using shock absorber cylinders similar to the kind being developed by cambridge , massachusetts-based levant power .