Left | Mean of left in English Dictionary

/ˈlɛft/

• located on the same side of your body as your heart
1. He felt a pain in his left side.
2. her left hand/leg
• done with your left hand
1. He hit him with a left hook to the jaw.
• located nearer to the left side of your body than to the right
1. the left side of the street
2. a chair's left arm
3. taking a left turn

• toward the left
1. Please move left.
2. She ran left and caught the ball.
3. Taking one step left, he fell to the ground.
• toward the political Left
1. a political party that has shifted left
2. His political views are slightly left of center. [=are slightly liberal]
• using the left hand
1. He bats/throws left. [=left-handed]
• in a very quick and uncontrolled way
1. She has been spending money left and right.
2. He was calling out names left and right.
3. The police were stopping cars left and right.
• Noun
• a location closer to the left side of your body than to the right
1. We read from left to right.
2. As you come down the street, my house will be on your/the left.
3. Move the picture a little to the left.
4. The picture is to the left of the window.
• a turn or movement toward the left
1. Go to the next intersection and take a left. = (US) Go to the next intersection and make/hang a left.
2. You'll take two lefts and then a right.
• a punch made with the left hand
1. He hit him with two quick lefts to the stomach followed by a right to the jaw.
• political groups who favor sharing money and property more equally among the members of a society
1. His nomination is opposed by the country's Left.
2. The new law is disliked by the Left.
3. Members of the Left have voiced their opinions on this matter.
• the position of people who support the beliefs and policies of the political Left
1. The party has shifted to the left. [=has become more liberal]