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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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French levant ("rising, sun's point of rising"), form of lever ("to rise"), from Latin levō ("to rise"), from levis ("light, not heavy").

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