Levantine en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈlɛvəntiːn/
- /ˈlɛvəntaɪn/
Etymology
From Levant + -ine (“of”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
Antonyms
Translations (20)
el λεβαντίνος (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · ga Leiveantach (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · pl lewantyński (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · cs levantský (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · ro levantin (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · fi levanttilainen (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · it levantino (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · ca llevantí (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · bn শামী (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · fr levantin (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · nl Levantijns (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · de morgenländisch (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · sv levantinsk (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · he לֶבַנְטִינִי (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · de levantinisch (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · ar شَامِيّ (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · gv Levaantagh (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · cmn 黎凡特的 (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · ru леванти́йский (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean) · pt levantino (of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean)