Synonym of Franco-Levantine.
Used in a Sentence
levantine
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for levantine.
Editorial note
It really is strange that a Levantine country will have Levantine cuisine.
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Quick take
Synonym of Franco-Levantine.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of levantine gathered in one view.
Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for levantine.
noun
Synonym of Franco-Levantine.
adjective
Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
Example sentences
It really is strange that a Levantine country will have Levantine cuisine.
If not for him, Christianity would have just been another weird Levantine cult and would have probably died out.
Random Mileikowskis and Androvich's claiming ancient levantine connections and killing and stealing land over this nonsense.
Okay, and what percentage of those who moved to Israel were from Levantine countries?
Learning basic Levantine Arabic has brought me more smiles and free meals than I can count.
A job at a restaurant if you speak Levantine Arabic.
Jews, including white Ashkenazi European Jews, are levantine in origin.
That certainly is the case with Arabic where many speakers of Levantine or Gulf Arabic will probably understand Egyptian Arabic since they grow up watching Cairo-based media.
Also Christianity was a Levantine religion, growing fast in Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the Levant.
No, the Southern Iberians are something else, mixed along Atlantics and Mediterranean people since millenia and they know all the tricks, either from the Brits/Germanics to Levantine Semitic foes...
Other Jewish populations (North African, Mesopotamian, Ethiopian, Indian, etc..) generally have patrilineal descent from the original Levantine population and to varying degrees picked up local women.
However, people don't routinely speak in this register -- they speak in their local Gulf or Levantine or Egyptian dialects, which are pretty different from each other and from MSA.
Quote examples
How about Arafat, who doesn't have a "pure" unbroken Levantine lineage (being born in Cairo)?
> (side note, aren't middle-eastern Muslims generally considered Semites as in descendants of Shem?) Arabs and Jews are both Semitic (in the sense of speaking Semitic languages and having Levantine origins), but the word “antisemitism” refers specifically to Jew hatred.
Proper noun examples
Because of that, *many Maltese words sound familiar* to Arabic speakers — especially from the *Maghrebi (North African)* or *Levantine* dialects.
Fluent in classical (and Levantine) Arabic, Chinese, Greek; Top Putnam score (twice), teacher, Christian missionary.
You frequently don’t know if you’re reading MSA, Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf, Iraqi, Meghrebi, or Libyan (and that’s not even close to most of them).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use levantine in a sentence?
It really is strange that a Levantine country will have Levantine cuisine.
What does levantine mean?
Synonym of Franco-Levantine.
What part of speech is levantine?
levantine is commonly used as noun, adjective.