Levee

Noun

 * 1) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A pier or other landing place on a river.

Synonyms

 * dike, floodwall

Noun

 * 1)  The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
 * 2) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
 * The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox [...]
 * 1) A reception of visitors held after getting up.
 * 2) A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.

Thesaurus
affair, arch dam, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, backstop, ball, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, boom, brawl, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, caucus, cofferdam, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, dam, dance, date, defense, diet, dike, ditch, dock, earthwork, eisteddfod, embankment, fence, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, gate, gathering, get-together, gravity dam, groin, housewarming, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, logjam, matinee, meet, meeting, milldam, moat, mole, mound, panel, parapet, party, plenum, portcullis, prom, quay, quorum, rally, rampart, reception, rendezvous, reunion, roadblock, rock-fill dam, salon, seance, seawall, session, shindig, shutter dam, sit-in, sitting, slip, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soiree, stews, stone wall, symposium, synod, tenderloin, turnout, wake, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

Etymology 1
From levée:, from lever:.

Etymology 2
From levé:.

Noun

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