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left meaning

EN[lɛft] [-ɛft]
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  • Left may refer to:
  • Left (direction)
  • Left (Hope of the States album), 2006
  • Left (Sharlok Poems album)
  • Left-wing politics, the political trend or ideology
  • Left (Austria), a movement of Marxist–Leninist, Maoist and Trotskyist organisations in Austria
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    Definition of left in English Dictionary

  • NounPLlefts
    1. The left side or direction.
      1. (politics) The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group.
        1. The political left is not holding enough power.
      2. (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
      3. Verb
        1. simple past tense and past participle of leave.
          1. Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
        2. Remaining.
          1. There are only three cups of juice left. ‎
        3. (Ireland, colloquial) permitted, allowed to proceed.
          1. We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
      4. AdjectiveCOMmore leftCOMlefterSUPmost leftSUPleftmost
        1. The opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north.
          1. Turn left at the corner.
        2. (politics) pertaining to the political left; liberal, communistic.
        3. AdverbCOMmore leftCOMlefterSUPmost leftSUPleftmost
          1. On the left side.
            1. Towards the left side.
            2. More Examples
              1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
                • He should stay off the dance floor with his two left feet.
                • Parallel studies are carried out for the undirectional model, where the neighbor effects do not depend on whether they are from the left or right.
                • He had books piled from floor to ceiling.  He left yesterday from Chicago.   Face away from the wall! ‎
              2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
                • Left to my own devices, I'll spend hours staring into space, just thinking.
                • Left hemicorporeal seizures persisted despite anticonvulsant treatment.
              3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
                • The next town east, Colgan, is littered with semicollapsed houses and rusting automobiles; an older man I spotted working on some kind of machine in his yard told me there were six residents left.
                • Another Wilkinson attempt was charged down before a fine clearing run and kick from Ashton and burgled Scottish line-out worked a penalty chance from wide left.
                • The wretched thraldom was over,—and what had it left?
            • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
              1. Adjectives
                • Adverbs
                  • Uncomparable adverbs
                  • Nouns
                    • Countable nouns
                    • Verbs
                      • Verb forms
                        • Irregular verb forms
                          • Irregular past participles
                            • Irregular simple past forms
                            • Participles
                              • Past participles
                              • Verb simple past forms
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                          Source: Wiktionary

                          Meaning of left for the defined word.

                          Grammatically, this word "left" is an adjective. It's also an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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