Levant

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪˈvænt/

Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant ("be stolen away").

Full definition of levant

Noun

1. A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.

Verb

1. To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
• 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.
• 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlÉ›vÉ™nt/

From French levant.

Adjective

1. (heraldry) Rising, of an animal.
2. (legal) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.
3. (poetic) eastern
• MiltonForth rush the levant and the ponent winds.

Anagrams

• valent