English Dictionary

left

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɛft/

形容詞

Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

日本語の意味

体の前で正面から見たときの左側、つまり右の反対の方向を指す意味。

Stand facing north and raise your left hand.

北を向いて、左手を挙げてください。

意味（1）

Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

The left side.

意味（2）

(geography) 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 left side of the river.

意味（3）

(politics) Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.

It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense Left. Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.

more left （ comparative ）

lefter （ comparative ）

most left （ superlative ）

leftmost （ superlative ）