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Definition: Levee |
LeveeNoun1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "levee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A bank of soil to retain water on, or exclude it from, a piece of land. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Lateral deposits of a debris flow along its flow path. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | A long, narrow embankment usually built to protect land from flooding. If built of concrete or masonary the structure is usually referred to as a flood wall. Levees and floodwalls confine streamflow within a specified area to prevent flooding. The term "dike" is used to describe an embankment that blocks an area on a reservoir or lake rim that is lower than the top of the dam. Levee (Dike). (references) |
| A natural or manmade earthen barrier along the edge of a stream, lake, or river. Land alongside rivers can be protected from flooding by levees. (references) | |
Literature | Levee Levée en masse (French). A patriotic rising of a whole nation to defend their country from invasion. The Queen's Levée. It was customary for the queens of France to receive at the hour of their levé - i.e. while making their toilet- the visits of certain noblemen. This custom was afterwards demanded as a right by the court physicians, messengers from the king, the queen's secretary, and some few other gentlemen, so that ten or more persons were often in the dressing-room while the queen was making her toilet and sipping her coffee. The word is now used to express that concourse of gentlemen who wait on the queen on mornings appointed. No ladies except those attached to the court are present on these occasions. Kings and some nobles have their levées sometimes of an evening. "When I was very young (said Lord Eldon to Mrs. Forster) Lord Mansfield used to hold levées on Sunday evenings."- Twiss: Lord Eldon, vol. i. chap. v. p. 68. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | An embankment beside a river or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow. (references) |
Public Administration | A natural or artificial embankment which confines the river within its channel and prevents flooding. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A natural levee results from the deposit of material by a river during flood stage resulting in the land near a river being raised in elevation. When the river is not in flood state it cuts a channel in the elevated material. Natural levees are especially noted on the Yellow River in China near the sea where ocean going ships appear to sail high above the plain on the elevated river. Natural levees are also present on the Rio Grande River in Colorado's San Luis Valley.
Natural levees are formed as sediment of larger grain size settle out on the banks of channels due to the drop in flow velocity on the edge of the channel.
A levee can also be an event held on New Year's Day by a mayor and council to greet the townspeople.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Levee."
Synonyms: LeveeSynonyms: dam (n), dike (n), dyke (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Noun: {opp. } assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; (social gathering); assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; (council); posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark. |
Hindrance | Beaver dam; trocha; barricade; (defense); wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper; boom, dam, weir, burrock. |
Land | Riverbank, river bank, levee. |
Resistance | Insurrection; (disobedience); strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse, Jacquerie; riot; (disorder). |
Sociality | Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Levee |
| English words defined with "levee": Levee en masse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "levee": borrow material ♦ debris flow levee ♦ FARMWORKER, RICE, flood control levee, flood levee, Floodwall, Freeboard ♦ levee superintendent ♦ puddled core ♦ setback levee ♦ tower excavator. (references) |
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Lyrics | When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. (When the levee breaks; performing artist: Led Zeppelin) Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Down on the Levee (1933) The Royal Levee in India (1902) | |
Song Titles | When The Levee Breaks (performing artist: Led Zeppelin) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Flooding along the Mississippi River Refugees from the flood maintain their livestock on the top of a levee.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 Tent camp of refugees on river levee.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fringing marsh along a small bay outside west levee of lower Mississippi River.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Broken marsh in Barataria Basin just west of the levee.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Cleanup of a sandy spit adjacent to Southwest Pass levee following oil spill. This area is used extensively as cattle pasture despite its inaccessibility from land. Cattle are brought in by barge.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Cut through Mississippi River levee to allow fresh water to flow into adjacent cypress swamp.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Homes and businesses built along the levee ridge of Bayou Lafourche.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredged material -- new land created to left of rock levee.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | New land created by dredging operation behind temporary levee will be planted with Spartina alterniflora, smooth cordgrass, to form a new marsh area.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Dixon Bay, the southwest pass levee and base camp site in dense fog.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the little levee of earth extended until it connected with the highway embankment on either end. |
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| "Levee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Levee" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "levee" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Levee | Last name | 100 | 82,048 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "levee": debris flow levee ♦ flood control levee ♦ flood levee ♦ levee en masse ♦ sea levee ♦ setback levee. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
levee newport | 300 | cotes levee | 3 |
levee | 55 | hosiery levee | 2 |
amc levee newport | 10 | ky levee newport | 2 |
when the levee break | 9 | levee newport restaurant | 2 |
break led levee lyrics when zeppelin | 5 | district levee orleans | 2 |
kentucky levee newport | 5 | levee lift | 2 |
break levee lyrics when | 5 | en levee masse | 2 |
board levee new orleans | 3 | de fonds humanitaire levee | 2 |
board levee orleans | 3 | levee natural | 2 |
apartment houston levee | 3 | imax levee newport | 2 |
levee movie newport | 3 | cote levee recette | 2 |
break levee tab when | 3 | hose levee pantie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "levee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ledh (bank, bar, barrier, dike, traverse), pritje mëngjesore, pritje ceremoniale gjatë ditës, cfrat (Weir), argjinaturë (dike, embankment, seawall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حاجز (arresting, bail, bar, barricade, barrier, block, dike, divider, division, dyke, fence, jamming, obstacle, parapet, partition, rail, screen, stem, traverse), إستقبال (desk, pickup, reception, rout), رصيف (dock, flagging, footpath, kerb, path, recife, ridge, sidewalk, stance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стръмен бряг, кей (cob, embankment, front, jetty, landing stage, moorage, pier, quay, slip, wharf), насип (bank, dike, embankment, escarp, hilling, jetty, mound), пристан (flying bridge, mole, moorage, pier, wharf), прием (do, party, reception, rout, sherry-party), издигам вал, издигам насип, дига (dike, embankment, jetty, mole, sea-bank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 坝. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ranní audience. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dige (dike, dyke, embankment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | leidam, aarden wal (dike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مجلس پذیراءی , لنگرگاه (Anchorage, Berth, Dock, Harbor, Haven, Marina, Pier, Port), سلام عام , خاکریز (Bulwark, Fence, Moat, Weir), بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Link, Manacle, Noose, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Sling, Snare, Stanza, Tie, Trawl, Weir, Wristband), بارعام دادن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulvapenger, rantavalli (groin, groyne, spur), penger (bank, border, dike, embankment, terrace), pato (barrage, barrier, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, weir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | digue (flood control levee, flood levee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | damm (back-filling, bank, barrage, barricade, bund, causeway, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, fill embankment, flood bank, flood control levee, flood embankment, flood levee, perineum, ridge), deich (dam, dike, dyke, embankment, flood bank, flood control levee, flood embankment, flood levee, seawall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανάχωμα (bank, border, dike, dyke, embankment, mound, ridge, sea wall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קבלת פ ים רשמית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | király felkelése. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tanggul (causeway, dam, mound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | diga (barrage, breakwater, causeway, check dam, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, flood bank, flood control levee, flood embankment, flood levee, jetty, mole, pier, sea wall, weir), argine (bank, bay, bulwark, bund, dam, defence, defense, dike, dyke, embankment, flood bank, flood control levee, flood embankment, flood levee, passage, riverbank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 護岸工事 (levee protection works). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "が""うじ (levee protection works). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 논두 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | failtaghey reeoil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eveelay levantino (levanter), mota (dike), maracha (dike), dique (bank, basin, beacon, bund, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, jetty, lock, mole, mound, sluice), cómoro (dike). (various references) zãgaz (bank, barrier, breakwater, dam, dike, embankment, flood gate, groin, pier, Weir), primire oficialã, primire (acceptance, initiation, receipt, receiving, reception), dig (breakwater, dam, dike, embankment, jetty, mole, pier), debarcader (landing place, quay, wharf), chei (embankment, fountain, gap, gorge, jetty, mole, opening, pier, quay, wharf), îndigui (bank, dike, embank, stem). (various references) дамба (barrage, causeway, dam, dike, embankment, mole, pen, seawall, sea-wall). (various references) prijem kod predsednika, obalski nasip, nasip (bank, bulwark, causeway, causey, dam, dike, embankment, jetty, mound). (various references) dique (bank, breakwater, dam, dike, dock, drift grouting, dyke, jetty, mole, pier, slip). (various references) leve (cheer, viva), skyddsvall, kaj (dock, embankment, jetty, pier, platform, quay, whar, wharf), jordvall (dike, earthwork, embankment), flodfördämning, eftermiddagsmottagning, bank (bank, bank of rubber, banking house, bar, bela, cloudbank, dike, dyke, embankment, sandbank). (various references) เขื่อนป้องกันน้ำท่วม, สร้างเขื่อนกั้นน้ำ, ที่สำหรับจอ"เรือ, งานเลี้ยงรับรองผู้มีเกียรติ, คันนา. (various references) taşmayı önleyen set, resmi kabul, nehir taşmasına karşı set, kabul töreni (initiation, rout). (various references) прийом у глави держави, прийом гостей. (various references) con đê. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | levare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "levee": leveed, leveeing, levees. (additional references) | |
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"Levee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bevee, blevey, clevee, elevee, elevy, elfe, elsevere, Elvey, ieve, Kleve, lavae, lavea, lavie, Lebeau, Leeeee, leev, leeve, leevee, lefe, lefever, lefi, lelei, levate, levea, leveal, leved, leveed, levere, leveren, levey, levie, levo, lieve, livy, Lleven, Lovedee, lovei, Lovesex, lovy, Luehea, luvy, lxvii. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "levee" (pronounced le"vē) |
| 4 | l e" v ē | levy. |
| 3 | -e" v ē | bevy, Chevy, heavy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-v" | |
-2 letters: eel, eve, lee, lev, vee. | |
-3 letters: el. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-v" | |
+1 letter: eleven, leveed, levees, releve, sleeve. | |
+2 letters: believe, beveled, beveler, deleave, develed, elevate, elevens, leveled, leveler, levered, leveret, releves, relieve, reveled, reveler, sleeved, sleeves. | |
+3 letters: believed, believer, believes, bevelers, bevelled, beveller, cleveite, cleverer, deleaved, deleaves, develope, elective, elevated, elevates, eleventh, envelope, laveered, leavened, leveeing, levelers, levelled, leveller, leverage, leverets, relieved, reliever, relieves, revealed, revealer, reveille, revelers, revelled, reveller, selvedge, severely, teleview, televise, velveret, velveted, venereal, vesseled, weeviled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 76 65 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ...- . . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e v e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0076 0065 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4671887171 |
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