Embankment vs Levee - What's the difference?
embankment | levee |
As nouns the difference between embankment and levee is that embankment is a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road while levee is an embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the mississippi or levee can be (obsolete) the act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest. As a verb levee is (us|transitive) to keep within a channel by means of levees or levee can be to attend the levee or levees of.
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embankment English
Noun
( en noun)
a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road
Related terms
* Victoria Embankment
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levee Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
(US) The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
(US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
Synonyms
* (embankment) dike, floodwall
Verb
(US) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
- to levee a river
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
* Gray
- the sun's levee
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
- The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox
A reception of visitors held after getting up.
A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
* {{quote-book
, year=1992
, year_published=1993
, author= Hilary Mantel
, title=A Place of Greater Safety
citation
, isbn=9780689121685
, page=195
, passage=At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’
}}
Verb
To attend the levee or levees of.
* Young
- He levees all the great.
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