Definitions
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- proper noun The countries bordering the eastern
Mediterranean Sea variously: - proper noun An
easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word "Levant" comes from the French for "rising," pointing European eyes toward the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, where the sun rises.
On the Eastern Shore Michael Young 2011
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Unfortunately I doubt the students know who Ezra Levant is and the vice-principal probably never gave them a chance to defend their shirts.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo? 2010
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Unfortunately I doubt the students know who Ezra Levant is and the vice-principal probably never gave them a chance to defend their shirts.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo? 2010
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I know you have no problem with that and the fate of a block of desert in the Levant is well worth murdering every last dissenter for whatever reason, but I think sane people in the year 2007 might think differently.
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Mary Shelley's The Last Man imagines a remote future in which the Mediterranean region, Greece and the Levant, is still a site of international conflict, as it was when Shelley wrote.
Note: Greek Wars 2002
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"on the coast of the Adriatic Sea (as he calls the Levant), _six_ miles from one another"; at last he got away to Constantinople, with some safely smuggled trophies of pilgrimage, and some "balsam in a calabash, covered with petroleum," but the customs officers would have killed all of them if the fraud had been found out -- so Willibald believed.
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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Rumors that the Kurds are Indo-Europeans whereas the Arabs of the Levant are our Semitic cousins are baseless and mean.
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Even before Leviathan, a series of finds had put the so-called Levant Basin, stretching offshore in the Mediterranean, on the international energy map.
Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel Charles Levinson 2010
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While I generally agree with Arendt, her idea that a binational state in the Levant could be a homeland to Jews was daffy — why should such a state grant Jews a right of return?
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The Levant will be a lot happier place if Hamas turns out to be a faster learner.
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