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“Levee” or “Levy”

levee / levy are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

levee l·EH·v·iy

  • nouna formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court).
  • nouna pier that provides a landing place on a river.
  • nounan embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing.

levy l·EH·v·iy

  • nouna charge imposed and collected.
  • nounthe act of drafting into military service.
  • verbimpose and collect.
Usage

Examples in context

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“levee”

  • …to Captain White's on Front Levee Street and recruitment became a…
  • …the site of the destroyed levee.
  • leopard, levee).
  • …less than fruitful when the levee system was breached in several…
  • …be used for the city's levee upgrades.
  • …Neustettiner See) as well as levee construction at some rivers (e.g.
  • The height difference between the levee top and the surrounding floodplains…
  • …in 1965, after which a levee was built.
  • …breaks its natural or artificial levees and deposits sediment on a…
  • …recruiting station at 29 Front Levee, between Gravier and Poydras streets,…

“levy”

  • …of forty triremes and to levy sixty talents in order to…
  • The philosopher Donald Levy agrees with Grünbaum that Freud's…
  • …Flowers (1944); libretto by Muriel Levy
  • …originates at Wekiva Spring in Levy County, Florida.
  • David Louis [Louis Levy]
  • …the Negev", then chairman Mario Levy and his son Rami (then…
  • Eleanor Levy – editor, 1989–1991.
  • …Beckford, Kat Graham, and William Levy.
  • …Assembly seats and whose candidate, Levy Mwanawasa, won the presidential vote.
  • …the show, Quinton Canosa (William Levy) and the two quickly share…

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