aleft

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adverb

To or on the left-hand side.

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Meanings

adverbaleft (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableTo or on the left-hand side.

    Once more away! and now The long descent is seen, A long, long, narrow path. Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow, Aleft the giddy precipice.

    1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC

Origin

From a- + left.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

fetalalfet
Cite this entry
APA

aleft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aleft

MLA

“aleft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aleft. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aleft,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aleft.

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