"left-winger" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: left-wingers [plural]
Etymology: From left-wing + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|left-wing|er}} left-wing + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} left-winger (plural left-wingers)
  1. (politics) A person who espouses left-wing political views. Categories (topical): Politics, People, Politics
    Sense id: en-left-winger-en-noun-tI9NlmSp Disambiguation of People: 51 0 49 Disambiguation of Politics: 56 23 22 Topics: government, politics
  2. A member of the left wing of a party or group.
    Sense id: en-left-winger-en-noun-JG3gPVTz
  3. (sports) A person who plays the position of left wing. Categories (topical): Sports, Leftism, People Translations (sports winger on the left): vasemman laidan pelaaja (Finnish), ailier gauche [masculine] (French), ailière gauche [feminine] (French), Linksaußen [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-left-winger-en-noun-rcE8-hPp Disambiguation of Leftism: 20 8 72 Disambiguation of People: 51 0 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 6 60 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 31 5 64 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 30 4 66 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 34 8 58 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 2 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 21 4 75 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 18 6 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 21 4 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 34 5 62 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 19 4 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 19 3 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 34 5 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 33 5 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 19 3 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 18 2 81 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'sports winger on the left': 11 35 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: leftist, leftie, lefty [UK, colloquial], leftoid [derogatory] Related terms: left wing, left-wing Translations (person who belongs to the political left): vasemmistolainen (Finnish), personne de gauche [feminine] (French), gauchiste [often, pejorative] (French), esquerdista [feminine, masculine] (Galician), მემარცხენე (memarcxene) (Georgian), Linker [masculine] (German), Linke [feminine] (German), linksstehende Person [feminine] (German), Person vom linken Flügel [feminine] (German), Linksaußen [masculine] (German), वामपंथी (vāmpanthī) (Hindi), baloldali (Hungarian), esquerdista (Portuguese), ле́вый (lévyj) [masculine] (Russian), ле́вая (lévaja) [feminine] (Russian), izquierdista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), rojo [masculine] (Spanish), zurdo [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'person who belongs to the political left': 45 8 47

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.