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say it: LEV-ee
levee is a noun meaning "a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
a pier that provides a landing place on a river
an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for levee come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.