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- 1 Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
"Near-synonym: port"
- 2 Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
"The road up ahead contains a left bend."
- 3 Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
"The Eiffel Tower is on the left bank of the Seine."
- 4 Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
"It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order."
- 1 not used up wordnet
- 2 intended for the left hand wordnet
- 3 of or belonging to the political or intellectual left wordnet
- 4 being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north wordnet
- 1 On the left side. not-comparable
- 2 Towards the left side. not-comparable
"Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left."
- 3 Towards the political left. not-comparable
"The East Coast of the US leans left in elections."
- 1 toward or on the left; also used figuratively wordnet
- 1 The political left wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual left-wing political party.
"Maybe it’s true that “the Left can’t meme,” if “the Left” refers to the earnest suburban revolutionary with an undercut and a nose ring who typically stalks your replies on X."
- 1 The left side or direction.
- 2 a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east wordnet
- 3 The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
"The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet."
- 4 the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left wordnet
- 5 The left hand or fist.
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- 6 the hand that is on the left side of the body wordnet
- 7 A punch delivered with the left fist.
"The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul."
- 8 those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare wordnet
- 9 A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
- 10 location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east wordnet
- 1 simple past and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”). form-of, participle, past
"There's not much food left."
- 2 simple past and past participle of leave (“permit”). form-of, participle, past
"We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend."
Etymology
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”).
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”).
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”).
From Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfd, ġelǣfd, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave.
From Middle English levit, ilevet, y-levyd, from Old English ġelȳfd, ġelȳfed, past participle of Old English ġelȳfan, lȳfan (“to allow, permit”), equivalent to leave (“to give leave to, allow, grant, permit”) + -ed.
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