Definitions for left

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Spelling: [left]
IPA: /lɛft/

Left is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in left (eflt).

Definitions for left

noun

  1. the left side or something that is on the left side.
  2. a turn toward the left:
  3. the Left. the complex of individuals or organized groups advocating liberal reform or revolutionary change in the social, political, or economic order. the position held by these people. Compare right (def 33a, b). left wing.
  4. (usually initial capital letter) Government. the part of a legislative assembly, especially in continental Europe, that is situated on the left side of the presiding officer and that is customarily assigned to members of the legislature who hold more radical and socialistic views than the rest of the members. the members of such an assembly who sit on the left.
  5. Boxing. a blow delivered by the left hand.
  6. Baseball. left field (def 1).

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of leave1 .

Idioms

  1. get left, to be left stranded. to miss an opportunity, objective, etc.

adverb

  1. toward the left:

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or located on or near the side of a person or thing that is turned toward the west when the subject is facing north (opposed to right).
  2. (often initial capital letter) of or belonging to the political Left; having liberal or radical views in politics.
  3. Mathematics. pertaining to an element of a set that has a given property when written on the left of an element or set of elements of the set:

Verb phrases

  1. leave alone. alone (def 7).
  2. leave off, to desist from; cease; stop; abandon. to stop using or wearing: to omit:
  3. leave out, to omit; exclude:

verb (used with object)

  1. to go out of or away from, as a place:
  2. to depart from permanently; quit:
  3. to let remain or have remaining behind after going, disappearing, ceasing, etc.:
  4. to allow to remain in the same place, condition, etc.:
  5. to let stay or be as specified:
  6. to let (a person or animal) remain in a position to do something without interference:
  7. to let (a thing) remain for action or decision:
  8. to give in charge; deposit; entrust:
  9. to stop; cease; give up:
  10. to disregard; neglect:
  11. to give for use after one's death or departure:
  12. to have remaining after death:
  13. to have as a remainder after subtraction:
  14. Nonstandard. let1 (defs 1, 2, 6).

verb (used without object)

  1. to go away, depart, or set out:
  2. to put forth leaves; leaf.

Origin of left

1125-75; 1935-40 for def 6; Middle English left, lift, luft, Old English left idle, weak, useless, Kentish form of lyft- (in lyftādl palsy); cognate with Dutch, Low German lucht; akin to Midd

Examples for left

At the top was crimson, at the right hand blue, and at the left hand yellow.

She left me more composed and happy than I have been for many days.

Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.

Pericles went to seek his son, and found him reclining on the couch where he had left him.

You began to look bad as soon as you left off your breakfast.

Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

Morris searched for whatever strength was left in his malnourished body.

But there is a big twist in this story that has left both Grace Castro and Lozoya frustrated and grasping for more answers.

She gazed on his features as he slept; and was left to sorrow alone.

Word Value for left
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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