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Noun right has 8 senses
- right - an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"
--1 is a kind of abstraction, abstract
--1 has particulars:
- right - (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing; "mineral rights"; "film rights"
--2 is a kind of interest, stake
- right - location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east; "he stood on the right"
--3 is a kind of position, place
Antonyms: left
--3 has particulars: stage right, right stage
- right - a turn to the right; "take a right at the corner"
--4 is a kind of turn, turning
- right, right wing - those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
--5 is a kind of faction, sect
--5 has particulars: religious right; hard right
- right, rightfulness - anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim"
--6 is a kind of justice, justness
Antonyms: wrong, wrongfulness
- right, right hand - the hand that is on the right side of the body; "he writes with his right hand but pitches with his left"; "hit him with quick rights to the body"
--7 is a kind of hand, manus, mitt, paw
- right field, right - the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
--8 is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--8 is a part of outfield
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