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levanted
We have found lemma(root) word of levanted : levant.
Definitions
[lɪˈvant], (Verb)
Definitions:
- run away, typically leaving unpaid debts
(e.g: the clerk had levanted before his employer returned from America)
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Origin
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early 17th century: perhaps from Levant: compare with French faire voile en Levant ‘be stolen or spirited away’, literally ‘set sail for the Levant’
[lɪˈvant], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the eastern part of the Mediterranean with its islands and neighbouring countries
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Origin
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late 15th century: from French, literally ‘rising’, present participle of lever ‘to lift’ used as a noun in the sense ‘point of sunrise, east’
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