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leftern

leftern adjective: left (opposite of right).

Adjective

leftern (superlative lefternmost)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Left (opposite of right).
    • The leftern-most group was surprised and almost annihilated by Mauser fire; all the five officers were killed or wounded, [...]1904, Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, The History of the Boer War, volume 2, page 473
    • On the leftern side in figure 1 there is sketched a structure consisting of 18 elements, which are connected in 10 nodes. [...] According to the scheme shown on the rightern side of figure 1: the grey squares stand for non-null valued coefficients, ...1984, B. A. Schrefler, Roland Wynne Lewis, S. A. Odorizzi, Engineering software for microcomputers: proceedings of the first international conference, held in Venice, Italy on 2nd-5th April 1984

Examples of leftern in a sentence

  • Marx” [...] Lumpen is sent to the Abbey down by the “Leftern”-most edge [...]2012, Xtine Burrough, Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design, Routledge, →ISBN, page 31:
  • Eventually a truce was declared and a line drawn between the leftern and the rightern semispheres.2016, Dave Jeanes, The Gods, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Antonyms of leftern

Forms of leftern

superlativelefternmost

Origin of leftern

From left + -ern.

Questions about leftern

What does leftern mean?
Leftern means left (opposite of right).
How do you use leftern in a sentence?
Marx” [...] Lumpen is sent to the Abbey down by the “Leftern”-most edge [...]
What part of speech is leftern?
Leftern is an adjective.

Words near leftern in the dictionary

  1. lefte
  2. leftenant
  3. leftenants
  4. lefteous
  5. lefter
  6. leftern
  7. lefters
  8. leftest
  9. leftfield
  10. leftfielder
  11. leftfielders

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