Left-behind
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Left-behind is a noun meaning An item that was left behind when someone departed.
Meaning
An item that was left behind when someone departed.
Example Sentences
First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.
Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.
One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.
He would refer to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'.
Word Forms
- left-behinds
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include others, abandonee, forgotten, loser, lostling, neglectee.
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