Left-wing meaning

The liberal or radical faction of a group.
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The more liberal or radical section of a political party, group, etc.
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(politics) The more left-wing faction of a group or party.
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(sports) The left-hand side of a sports field.
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(ice hockey) The offensive player who plays to the center's left.
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(politics) Supporting political reform to make society more egalitarian, secular, and/or democratic.
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Origin of left-wing

  • From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.
    From Wiktionary

Left-wing Sentence Examples

  • Corps were streaming up through the woods against the French left wing.

  • The left wing was totally destroyed by the bombardment of 1795, but has since been restored.

  • Butler, Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula, 1808-14 (London, 1904); Batty, Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army in the Western Pyrenees and South of France, 1813-14 (London, 1823); Foy, Histoire de la guerre de la Peninsule, F&c., sous Napoleon (Paris and London, 1827); Lord Londonderry, Narrative of the Peninsular War, 1808-13 (London, 1829); R.

  • Their left wing drove the English back, but Lord Dacre's reserve corps restored the fight on this side.

  • defeated the Austrians and Russians on the 2nd of December 1805, was fought in the country to the west of Austerlitz, the position of Napoleon's left wing being almost equi-distant from Briinn and from Austerlitz.

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