Meanings
- not comparableOf the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
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[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York TimesAntonyms: Ponentine
plural Levantines
- Synonym of Franco-Levantine.
Synonyms: Franco-Levantine
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
nounSynonym of Franco-Levantine.
Origin
Translations
Arabic شَامِيّ
- شَامِيّ (šāmiyy)of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Bengali শামী
- শামী (śamī)of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Catalan llevantí
- llevantíof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Chinese Mandarin 黎凡特的
- 黎凡特的 (Lífántè de)of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Czech levantský
- levantskýof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Dutch Levantijns
- Levantijnsof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Finnish levanttilainen
- levanttilainenof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
French levantin
- levantinof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
German levantinisch, morgenländisch
- levantinischof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
- morgenländischof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Greek λεβαντίνος
- λεβαντίνος (levantínos)of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Hebrew לֶבַנְטִינִי
- לֶבַנְטִינִיof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Irish Leiveantach
- Leiveantachof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Italian levantino
- levantinoof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Polish lewantyński
- lewantyńskiof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Portuguese levantino
- levantinoof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Romanian levantin
- levantinof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Russian леванти́йский
- леванти́йский (levantíjskij)of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Swedish levantinsk
- levantinskof the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
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Cite this entry
Levantine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Levantine
“Levantine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Levantine. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Levantine,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Levantine.
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