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left
CEFRA1
/ˈlɛft/
adjective · verb
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
On or toward the side opposite the right.
- 02
verb
Went away from a place or person.
Examples
Fewer people write with their left hand than with their right.
When I left the train station, I saw a man.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 4
Also pronounced
- /ˈlɛf/
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsRemaining after others have gone or been used.
Anticlockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
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...
More examples
In contextThe road up ahead contains a left bend.
They were left speechless.
The left side.
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Origin
adjective
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”).