LEVANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Levant mean? 

• LEVANT (noun)
  The noun LEVANT has 2 senses:

1. a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding

2. the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel

  Familiarity information: LEVANT used as a noun is rare.

• LEVANT (verb)
  The verb LEVANT has 1 sense:

1. run off without paying a debt

  Familiarity information: LEVANT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A heavy morocco often used in bookbinding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

Levant; Levant morocco

Hypernyms ("Levant" is a kind of...):

morocco (a soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (members of "Levant"):

Levantine ((formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant)

Holonyms ("Levant" is a part of...):

Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)

• LEVANT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they levant    ... he / she / it levants   
Past simple: levanted   
Past participle: levanted   
-ing form: levanting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run off without paying a debt

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "levant" is one way to...):

abscond; absquatulate; bolt; decamp; go off; make off; run off (run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I bought it for two rose nobles from a shipman who came from the Levant.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Levant cottonseed oil is a source of gossypol and has antispermacidal activity.

(Levant Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

I had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was master, and a fourth part owner, in a voyage to the Levant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“They carry caviare and certain very noble spices from the Levant aboard of ships from Genoa,” quoth Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In heavy clusters they hung upon the forecastle all ready for a spring—faces white, faces brown, faces yellow, and faces black, fair Norsemen, swarthy Italians, fierce rovers from the Levant, and fiery Moors from the Barbary States, of all hues and countries, and marked solely by the common stamp of a wild-beast ferocity.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)