meaning of levee
1. The act of rising.
2. A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the presidents levee.
3. To attend the levee or levees of.
4. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
5. To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
6. See Levy in mass, under Levy, n.
7. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
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