Left Definition

lĕft
adjective
Designating or of that side of one's body which is toward the west when one faces north, the side of the less-used hand in most people.
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Designating or of the corresponding side of anything.
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Closer to the left side of a person directly before and facing the thing mentioned or understood.
The top left drawer of a desk.
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Of the side or bank of a river on the left of a person facing downstream.
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Of the political left; communist, socialist, liberal, etc.

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noun
All or part of the left side.
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What is on the left side.
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A direction or location on the left side.
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A turn toward the left side.
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The left hand.
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adverb
On or toward the left hand or side.
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verb
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Simple past tense and past participle of leave..

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There are only three cups of juice left.
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(Ireland, colloquial) Permitted, allowed to proceed.
We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
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Other Word Forms of Left

Noun

Singular:
left
Plural:
lefts

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Left

  • have two left feet

Origin of Left

  • From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, useless"), from Proto-Germanic *luft- (compare Scots left (“left"), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left"), West Frisian lofts (“left"), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless"), dialectal Low German lucht (“left"), from *lubjanÄ… "to castrate, lop off" (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leup, *(s)lup "hanging limply". More at lob, lop.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English lyft- weak, useless (in lyftādl paralysis) N., sense 2, from the fact that liberals often sit on the left side of the legislative chamber in various assemblies

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From a verbal use of leave (“permission"), perhaps connected to Middle English leven (“to give leave to, permit, concede"), from Old English lÄ«efan, lȳfan (“to allow"). More at leave.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left"), from Old English lÇ£fd, Ä¡elÇ£fd, past participle of lÇ£fan (“to leave"). More at leave.

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