left bank
left bank noun: the bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.
Noun
left bank (plural left banks)
- The bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.
- The railway, which is single track throughout, skirts the left bank of the estuary of the River Colne, and was washed out over a length of about three miles.1953 December, “Brightlingsea trains to be Restored”, in Railway Magazine, page 793
- Synonyms:
- LDB, left descending bank
Proper noun capitalized: Left Bank
Left Bank
left bank meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese
left bank in Tamil
- இடக்கரை
left bank in Vietnamese
- river bank to the left when facing downstream
- tả ngạn
Synonyms of left bank
- LDB
- left descending bank
Forms of left bank
| plural | left banks |
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Origin of left bank
Calque of French rive gauche, in reference to the bank of the river Seine in Paris.
Questions about left bank
- What does left bank mean?
- Left bank means the bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.
- What is left bank in Tamil?
- Left bank in Tamil is இடக்கரை. See Left bank meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is left bank?
- Left bank can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of left bank?
- The plural of left bank is left banks.
Words near left bank in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: left bank (page history and authors); Left Bank (page history and authors); left bank (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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