[lɪˈvant], (Verb)

Definitions:
- run away, typically leaving unpaid debts
(e.g: the clerk had levanted before his employer returned from America)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century: perhaps from Levant: compare with French faire voile en Levant ‘be stolen or spirited away’, literally ‘set sail for the Levant’

[lɪˈvant], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the eastern part of the Mediterranean with its islands and neighbouring countries


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century: from French, literally ‘rising’, present participle of lever ‘to lift’ used as a noun in the sense ‘point of sunrise, east’