Definition of levee

• n. - The act of rising.
• n. - 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 president's levee.
• v. t. - To attend the levee or levees of.
• n. - An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
• v. t. - To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.