Crossword-Solution: LEVANTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Levanter | v. | One who levants, or decamps. |
| Levanter | n. | A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LEVANTER | anagram | RELEVANT, REVELANT |
We have 15 clues for the answer “LEVANTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean region | 1 answer |
| East wind type | 1 answer |
| Mediterranean native. | 1 answer |
| Strong Mediterranean wind. | 1 answer |
| wind type East | 1 answer |
| SPANISH wind | 2 answers |
| Mediterranean wind type | 3 answers |
| wind type Mediterranean | 3 answers |
| Mediterranean wind | 4 answers |
| Easterner | 8 answers |
| Oriental | 11 answers |
| AN EASTERLY WIND IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AREA | 11 answers |
| silk | 44 answers |
| WIND, type of | 47 answers |
| Wind ___ | 62 answers |
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Sentences with LEVANTER (5)
Whilst scudding along in this manner, we passed close under the stern of a large vessel bearing American colours; she was tacking up the straits, and slowly winning her way against the impetuous Levanter.
Blount took an opportunity to whisper into Raleigh's ear, “This storm came like a levanter in the Mediterranean.” “VARIUM ET MUTABILE,” answered Raleigh, in a similar tone.
Had those abuses been really such, which the Seceders denounced, were it possible that a primary law of pure Christianity had been set aside for generations, how came it that evils so gross had stirred no whispers of reproach before 1834? How came it that no aurora of early light, no prelusive murmurs of scrupulosity even from themselves, had run before this wild levanter of change? Heretofore or now there must have been huge error on their own showing.
The air was sickly; and if the wind was not a sirocco, it was a withering levanter--oppressive to the functions of life, and to an invalid denying all exercise.
Many a gallant sailing-ship commander has been driven to despair in other days by the friendly levanter failing them just as they were wellnigh through the Gut or had reached the foot of the majestic Rock, when the west wind would assert its power over its feebler adversary, and unless he was in a position to fetch an anchorage behind the Rock or in the bay, their fate was sealed for days, and sometimes weeks, in hard beating to prevent as little ground being lost as possible.
Quotes with LEVANTER (1)
And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1950–1982).