new left
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.53 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A broad political movement, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, made up of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a range of reforms on issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, and the legalization of drugs.
Example Sentences
- "The New Left is a product of popular affluence and social change—once the revolutionary goals of the European Left; it does not arise from mass oppression."
- "In theory the New Left wanted to remake society, but in practice old divisions of labor went unchallenged: men got all the glory, becoming leaders and spokespeople, while women were left with the dull office work, their efforts invisible behind the scenes."
Inflected Forms
the New Left (canonical)