Word Meaning

levee definition and meaning

n. The act of rising.
n. A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
v. t. To attend the levee or levees of.
n. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
v. t. To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.

Crossword clues for levee

- Artificial embankment
- Embankment
- Flood bank
- Flood barrier
- Flood defence
- Raised bank
- Raised riverbank
- River barrier
- Riverbank tax spoken of
- Riverside embankment
- The Nile veers, covering embankment