different between lovee vs levee

English

Etymology

love +? -ee

Noun

lovee (plural lovees)

1. One who is loved; a recipient of love.
   • 1999, James R. Ozinga, Altruism (page 11)

     One might even describe a monitored feedback loop that permits one to sense when insufficient loving is returning from the lovee, causing a lessening of the lover's efforts.

   • 2009, Jonar Nader, How to Lose Friends and Infuriate Lovers (page 92)

     It's just that one is the lover, while the other is the lovee. Together, they make love. One has an obligation to nurture, and the other has a duty of care.

English

Alternative forms

• levée (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?vi/, /?l?v.e?/
• Rhymes: -?vi, -?ve?
• Homophone: levy (some pronunciations only)
• (US) enPR: lev'i, IPA^(key): /?l?vi/, /l??vi/, /l??ve?/
• Rhymes: -?vi
• Homophones: levy, Levy

Etymology 1

From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”).

Noun

levee (plural levees)

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

Synonyms

• (embankment): dike, floodwall

Translations

Verb

levee (third-person singular simple present levees, present participle leveeing, simple past and past participle leveed)

1. (US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.

   to levee a river

Translations

Etymology 2

From French levé variant of the noun lever (“the act of getting up in the morning”).

Noun

levee (plural levees)

1. (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
   • c. 1763, Thomas Gray, letter to Mr. Nichols

     And look before you were up in the morning, though you were a punctual courtier at 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 […]

2. A reception of visitors held after getting up.
3. A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.

Verb

levee (third-person singular simple present levees, present participle leveeing, simple past and past participle leveed)

1. (transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.
   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     He levees all the great.

Anagrams

• eleve, leeve

Old French

Verb

levee

1. feminine singular of the past participle of lever