levant

Other forms of levant

plural

levants·

past tense

levanted·

present participle

levanting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about levant

What does levant mean?

levant means "a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in levant?

levant has 2 syllables: le-vant. The stress falls on "vant". In IPA it is /ləˈvænt/.

What is another word for levant?

Close synonyms include Levant morocco. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is levant a common word?

levant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.