adj
Meaning 1
Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: Ponentine
Standard Lemma guide
Levantine
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/ˈlɛvəntaɪn/
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/ˈlɛvəntiːn/
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noun
Meaning 2
Synonym of Franco-Levantine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Franco-Levantine
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
of or relating to the Levant or its inhabitants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Levantine coast
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
(formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal
History
Etymology
From Levant + -ine (“of”).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شَامِيّ (šāmiyy) — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Bengali: শামী (śamī) — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Catalan: llevantí — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Chinese Mandarin: 黎凡特的 (Lífántè de) — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Czech: levantský — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Dutch: Levantijns — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Finnish: levanttilainen — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- French: levantin — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- German: levantinisch — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- German: morgenländisch — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Greek: λεβαντίνος (levantínos) — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Hebrew: לֶבַנְטִינִי — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Irish: Leiveantach — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Italian: levantino — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Manx: Levaantagh — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Polish: lewantyński — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Portuguese: levantino — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Romanian: levantin — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Russian: леванти́йский (levantíjskij) — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- Swedish: levantinsk — of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean