left wing

nounperson or group favoring change

Synonyms for left wing

noun person or group favoring change

Antonyms for left wing

right wing

Word Origin & History

also (as an adjective) left-wing, 1871 in the political sense (1530s in a military formation sense), from left (adj.) + wing (n.). Related: Left-winger.

Example Sentences for left wing

It was understood that the left wing of the 1st corps was to take care of the Calvary of Illy.

Why was the left wing, where alone they were threatened by the enemy, stripped in that manner?

Cecily pointed to the row of windows in the left wing of the house.

No doubt, on the left wing, by Shah Dara, the battle had commenced.

Do you mean the door at the bottom of the staircase in the left wing?

Then he returned to the house and mounted the staircase to the left wing.

Such changes of fortune were there in the left wing of the Romans.

These had already formed a junction with the left wing of the British force.

This was the hard luck of many of the regiments in the left wing of Buell's army in 1862.

It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.