Usually means: Barrier designed to prevent flooding.
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  1. levee: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. levee: Merriam-Webster
  3. levee, levee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. levee, levee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. levee: Collins English Dictionary
  6. levee: Vocabulary.com
  7. Levee, levee: Wordnik
  8. levee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. levee: Wiktionary
  10. levee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. levee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. levee: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. levee: Dictionary.com
  14. levee: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Levee (ceremony), Levee (disambiguation), Levee (event), Levee, The Levee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Levee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. levee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. levee: Rhymezone
  19. Levee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. levee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LEVEE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. levee: FreeDictionary.org
  23. levee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. levee: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. levee: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. levee: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. levee: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See leveed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge.
noun:  An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
noun:  (US) The steep bank of a river.
noun:  (US) The border of an irrigated field.
noun:  (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
verb:  (US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
noun:  A reception of visitors held after getting up.
noun:  A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
verb:  (transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.

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