Borrowed from French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising”), form of lever (“to rise”), from Latin levō (“to rise”) (cf. also the present participle levāns), from levis (“light, not heavy”).
Meanings
An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea.
A type of leather.
[I]t was bound by G. Levitsky […] in turquoise Levant, stamped back and front with the Crosby crest in gold. 1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 173:
Borrowed from French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising”), form of lever (“to rise”), from Latin levō (“to rise”) (cf. also the present participle levāns), from levis (“light, not heavy”).
Meanings
A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
I see by the newspapers that the Mediterranean Fleet is leaving Malta for the Levant. 1948 October, Winston S[pencer] Churchill, The Gathering Storm (The Second World War), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, book I (From War to War: 1919–1939), page 171:
A place in the United States: ▸ A census-designated place in Thomas County, Kansas.
A place in the United States: ▸ A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
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