levantine
/ˈlɛvəntaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
noun
Example Sentences
- "[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."
Etymology
From Levant + -ine (“of”).
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Ponentine