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left wing

left wing noun: the wing on the left side of some body, most commonly one half of a pair.

Noun

left wing (plural left wings)

  1. The wing on the left side of some body, most commonly one half of a pair
    • The beekeeper said, "Tell me, did your wife say she noticed a patch or blotch of purple under the bee's left wing?"1928, British Bee Journal
  2. The more left-wing faction of a group, party, or group of parties.
    • My politics are extreme left-wing.
  3. The left-hand side of a sports field.
  4. The offensive player who plays to the center's left.

left wing meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Malay

left wing in Hindi

politics
वामपंथ vāmpanth

left wing in Malayalam

politics
ഇടതുപക്ഷം iṭatupakṣaṁ

left wing in Kannada

ಸಮಾಜವಾದಿ, ಎಡಪಕ್ಷದ, ವಾಮಪಂಥದ

left wing in Malay

politics
sayap kiri
sports
sayap kiri
More languagesFewer languages
left wing in Thai
ฝ่ายซ้าย fàai-sáai, ปีกซ้าย
left wing in Vietnamese
tả phái, cánh tả

Antonyms of left wing

Forms of left wing

pluralleft wings

Questions about left wing

What does left wing mean?
Left wing means the wing on the left side of some body, most commonly one half of a pair.
What is left wing in Hindi?
Left wing in Hindi is वामपंथ (vāmpanth). See Left wing meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is left wing?
Left wing is a noun.
What is the plural of left wing?
The plural of left wing is left wings.

Words near left wing in the dictionary

  1. left ventricle
  2. left ventricles
  3. left ventricular ejection time
  4. left ventricular ejection times
  5. left well alone
  6. left wing
  7. left wings
  8. left, right and center
  9. left, right and centre
  10. left, right, goodnight
  11. left, right, goodnights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: left wing (page history and authors); left wing (Kannada 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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