left-wing
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Etymology edit
From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.
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left-wing (comparative more left-wing, superlative most left-wing)
- (politics) Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.
- Synonyms: left, leftish, (particularly US and Canada) liberal
- Antonyms: right-wing, conservative
- Hyponyms: communist, democratic socialist, social democratic, socialist, socialistic
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favoring political, social, and economic equality
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