Meaning

noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; ; - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

noun the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right

originFrom Middle English reȝt, right, righte, riht, riȝt, riȝte, ryght, ryȝt, from Old English reht, reoht, rieht, riht, ryht (“right,” also the word for “straight” and “direct”), from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (“right, straight; just, morally upright”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“right, straightened”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten; to righten”). The Germanic…

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