1
: a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed
2
: an afternoon assembly at which the British sovereign or his or her representative receives only men
3
: a reception usually in honor of a particular person
the years of levees and parades and other suave peacetime occasions—
Gladys B. Stern
Gladys B. Stern1
a
: an embankment for preventing flooding
b
: a river landing place : pier
2
: a continuous dike or ridge (as of earth) for confining the irrigation areas of land to be flooded
Examples of levee in a Sentence
Noun (2)
the raging floodwaters were too much for the levee to handle
we tied the boat up at the levee and started unloading the fish we had caught
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee.
—Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
NBC News, 12 Sep. 2024
The state will shoulder the $17 million needed to raise the 14.5-mile Corcoran levee an additional four feet, protecting the city from rising floodwaters.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
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Noun
The Unified Government has conducted site work and construction to widen the levee to create a nearby overlook park adjacent to the bridge.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee.
—Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
Verb
Areas on the northern periphery of Lake Pontchartrain will be at higher risk for inundation because that part is not as heavily leveed as the southern end.
—NBC News, 12 Sep. 2024
The state will shoulder the $17 million needed to raise the 14.5-mile Corcoran levee an additional four feet, protecting the city from rising floodwaters.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
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“Levee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/levee. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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