Meaning

noun location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

noun those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare

noun the hand that is on the left side of the body

originFrom 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…

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