What does left-wing mean?

left-wing means "believing in or supporting tenets of the political left".

How many syllables are in left-wing?

left-wing has 2 syllables and divides as lef-t-wing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for left-wing?

Close synonyms include leftist, left-of-center. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is left-wing a common word?

left-wing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Left-wing — meaning and 2 synonyms

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
believing in or supporting tenets of the political left
Synonymsleftist left-of-center
Similarleft

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What does left-wing mean?: left-wing means "believing in or supporting tenets of the political left".
How many syllables are in left-wing?: left-wing has 2 syllables and divides as lef-t-wing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.
What is another word for left-wing?

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