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left
1[ left ]
adjective
- being, relating to, or located on or nearest to the side where a person’s heart normally is ( right ):
Dan was ahead of me and on the left side of the street.
I have arthritis in my left knee.
- Often Left. of or belonging to the political Left; having liberal or radical views in politics.
- Mathematics. pertaining to an element of a set that has a given property when written on the left of an element or set of elements of the set:
a left identity, as 1 in 1 ⋅ x = x.
noun
- the left side or something that is on the left side; the direction toward that side:
The laundry room is the first door on your left.
Move the picture about a foot to the left so it’s centered above the sofa.
- a turn toward the left:
Make a left at the next corner.
- none the left or the Left.
- the complex of individuals or organized groups advocating liberal reform or revolutionary change in the social, political, or economic order. Compare right ( def 33a ).
- the position held by these people. Compare right ( def 33b ).
- left wing. Compare right wing.
- Usually Left. Government.
- the part of a legislative assembly, especially in continental Europe, that is situated on the left side of the presiding officer and that is customarily assigned to members of the legislature who hold more radical and socialistic views than the rest of the members.
- the members of such an assembly who sit on the left.
- Boxing. a blow delivered by the left hand.
- Baseball. left field ( def 1 ).
adverb
- toward the left:
She moved left on entering the room.
left
2[ left ]
verb
- simple past tense and past participle of leave 1.
left
1/ ɛڳ /
adjective
- usually prenominal of or designating the side of something or someone that faces west when the front is turned towards the north
- usually prenominal worn on a left hand, foot, etc
- sometimes capital of or relating to the political or intellectual left
- sometimes capital radical or progressive, esp as compared to less radical or progressive groups, persons, etc
adverb
- on or in the direction of the left
noun
- a left side, direction, position, area, or part sinistersinistral
- often capital the supporters or advocates of varying degrees of social, political, or economic change, reform, or revolution designed to promote the greater freedom, power, welfare, or comfort of the common people
- to the leftradical in the methods, principles, etc, employed in striving to achieve such change
- boxing
- a blow with the left hand
- the left hand
left
2/ ɛڳ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of leave 1
Word History and Origins
Origin of left1
Word History and Origins
Origin of left1
Idioms and Phrases
- get left,
- to be left stranded.
- to miss an opportunity, objective, etc.
More idioms and phrases containing left
- hang a left
- out in left field
- right and left
- take up where one left off
- two left feet
Example Sentences
"And yet, I think his remarks echo the reality and pain of a subset of parents of children with autism who feel left out of much of the conversation around the condition."
Sitting in his reception room in the Vatican, Archbishop Gallagher said even he had been stunned by the magnitude of the void he feels has been left by the Pope's death.
"The joy and emotion he expressed were deeply meaningful to me," he said, adding that Pope Francis left him with a powerful message to live a life of solidarity, austerity, humility and commitment.
The shock and awe of these first three months has left the country dazed and confused and it is starting to rebel.
A 40-ton gray whale surfaced beside me — spy-hopping, they call it — her towering grace lifting from the water, close enough that I could see the walnut shine of her left eye.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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