Definitions for levee

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levee lev·ee

Spelling: [lev-ee]

IPA: /ˈlɛv i/

Levee is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in levee (eeelv).

Definitions for levee

noun

1. an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river.
2. Geology. natural levee.
3. Agriculture. one of the small continuous ridges surrounding fields that are to be irrigated.
4. History/Historical. a landing place for ships; quay.
5. (in Great Britain) a public court assembly, held in the early afternoon, at which men only are received.
6. a reception, usually in someone's honor:
7. History/Historical. a reception of visitors held on rising from bed, as formerly by a royal or other personage.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a levee:

Origin of levee

1710-20, Americanism; French levée Medieval Latin levāta embankment, noun use of feminine past participle of Latin levāre to raise, orig. lighten, akin to levis light, not heavy

Examples for levee

Crowds of the idle and poor were streaming out toward the levee.

On a fine Sunday in term time, it is quite a levee—quite a levee.

This was why he went to the levee as soon as he saw Heathcote was not going.

He started off up the levee, but the Forecaster called him back.

The Republican governor criticized the suit as beyond the authority of the levee board and is calling for it to be dropped.

He has not got the address, without which it is useless to go to the levee.

Only when government scientists determine there is a risk of flooding will the middle of the levee be put in place.

“Their Heads, which decorate our levee, all the way up the coast… look like crows sitting on long poles,” wrote one traveler.

There will certainly be a levee on the 21st, and I suppose a Drawing-room.

Mounting a levee heading north, Fobb suddenly stops dead, bringing his finger to his lips to silence us.