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Webster 1913 Edition
Levantine
Le-vant′ine
(lē̍-vănt′ĭn or lĕv′ant-īn; 277)
, Adj.
Of or pertaining to the Levant.
J. Spencer.
Le-vant′ine
,Noun.
1.
A native or inhabitant of the Levant.
2.
[F.
levantine
, or It. levantina
.] A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant.
Webster 1828 Edition
Levantine
LEV'ANTINE
,Adj.
1.
Pertaining to the Levant.2.
Designating a particular kind of silk cloth.LEV'ANTINE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Levantine
Levantine
See also: levantine
English
Adjective
Levantine (not comparable)
- Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
- 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:
- [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.
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Translations
of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
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