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

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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. levee: Urban Dictionary

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  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 geographical feature.
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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