Levee vs Levy - What's the difference?
levee | levy |
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.
(US) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
(obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
* Gray
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
A reception of visitors held after getting up.
A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
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To attend the levee or levees of.
* Young
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
* Shakespeare
To draft someone into military service
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
* Fuller
To wage war
To raise, as a siege.
(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
The act of levying.
* Thirlwall
The tax, property or people so levied.
* Macaulay
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
As nouns the difference between levee and levy
is that levee is an embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi while levy is the act of levying.As verbs the difference between levee and levy
is that levee is to keep within a channel by means of levees while levy is to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.levee
English
(wikipedia levee)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (embankment) dike, floodwallVerb
- to levee a river
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the sun's levee
- The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox
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Verb
- He levees all the great.
levy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".Verb
(en-verb)- to levy a tax
- If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
- Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- (Holland)
- to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
- (Cowell)
Noun
(levies)- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- The Irish levies .
