English Dictionary

left

/ˈlɛft/

adj

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 of the room is painted blue.

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.