departure going going away leaving | the act of departing |
farewell leave leave-taking parting | the act of departing politely, he disliked long farewells, he took his leave, parting is such sweet sorrow |
French leave | an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell) |
absence without leave unauthorized absence | unauthorized military absence |
left | a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east, take a left at the corner |
country-dance country dancing contredanse contra danse contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
left field leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
checkroom left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
left field leftfield left | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left, the batter flied out to left |
left-handedness sinistrality | preference for using the left hand |
left coronary artery | arises from the left aortic sinus, supplies the left side of the heart |
left gastric artery arteria gastrica sinistra | a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus |
left gastric vein vena gastrica sinistra | arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia, runs in the lesser omentum, empties into the portal vein |
oblique vein of the left atrium vena obliqua atrii sinistri | a tributary of the coronary sinus, on the posterior wall of the left atrium |
posterior vein of the left ventricle vena posterior ventriculi sinistri | arises near the apex of the heart and empties into the coronary sinus |
left ventricle | the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta |
left atrium left atrium of the heart atrium sinistrum | the left upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the pulmonary veins |
mitral valve bicuspid valve left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
left hemisphere left brain | the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body |
left left hand | the hand that is on the left side of the body, jab with your left |
leave | permission to do something, she was granted leave to speak |
ticket-of-leave | a permit formerly given to convicts allowing them to leave prison under specific restrictions |
country music country and western C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
cross country | a long race run over open country |
country people countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
commonwealth country | any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
developing country | a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically |
foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
country club | a suburban club for recreation and socializing |
left left wing | those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare |
area country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography), it was a mountainous area, Bible country |
high country | an area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline |
backwoods back country boondocks hinterland | a remote and undeveloped area |
fatherland homeland motherland mother country country of origin native land | the country where you were born |
buffer state buffer country | a small neutral state between two rival powers |
country state land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
old country | the country of origin of an immigrant |
left | location near or direction toward the left side, i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east, she stood on the left |
stage left left stage | the part of the stage on the actor's left as the actor faces the audience |
country rural area | an area outside of cities and towns, his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country |
European country European nation | any one of the countries occupying the European continent |
Scandinavian country Scandinavian nation | any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia |
Balkan country Balkan nation Balkan state | any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
African country African nation | any one of the countries occupying the African continent |
Asian country Asian nation | any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |