left
IPA: ɫˈɛft
noun
- The left side or direction.
- (politics) The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
- The left hand or fist.
- (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
- (surfing) A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
- (politics) The political left wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual left-wing political party.
adjective
- 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: ←
- (geography) 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.
- (politics) Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
adverb
- On the left side.
- Towards the left side.
- Towards the political left.
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Examples of "left" in Sentences
- The left hand is considered unclean.
- That is the way the composer left the score.
- The left hand is considered unclean in India.
- By the way, is the egg on the left fertilized
- Couldn't the chip be implanted in the left hand
- One that turns anticlockwise is said to be left handed.
- At the left hand side of the church is an empty marshland.
- The back of the left hand and the left arm were swollen and purplish.
- The counterpart to the baptistery is the sacristy in the left hand aisle.
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