English to afrikaans meaning of

levant

Die woord "Levant" het 'n paar verskillende betekenisse na gelang van die konteks, maar die primêre definisie daarvan is soos volg:'n Streek in die oostelike Middellandse See wat hedendaagse Libanon, Sirië insluit , Jordanië, Israel en Palestina.Boonop kan "Levant" ook as 'n selfstandige naamwoord of byvoeglike naamwoord gebruik word om mense of dinge wat met hierdie streek verband hou, te beskryf. In sommige historiese kontekste is "Levant" as 'n sinoniem vir die Midde-Ooste gebruik, hoewel hierdie gebruik vandag minder algemeen is.

Sentence Examples

  1. As to Dantès, he had passed it on his voyage to and from the Levant, but never touched at it.
  2. This time it was a great matter that was under discussion, connected with a vessel laden with Turkey carpets, stuffs of the Levant, and cashmeres.
  3. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannell, commander with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts.
  4. I had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was master and a fourth-part owner, in a voyage to the Levant.
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