name
Meaning 1
A particular movement in French New Wave cinema.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
left bank
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noun
Meaning 2
The bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: LDB, left descending bank
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Latin Quarter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods
History
Etymology
Calque of French rive gauche, in reference to the bank of the river Seine in Paris.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ձախափնյա (jaxapʻnya) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Belarusian: левабярэ́жны (ljevabjaréžny) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Belarusian: левабе́ражны (ljevabjéražny) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Chinese Mandarin: 左岸 (zuǒ'àn) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Czech: levobřežní — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Dutch: linkeroever — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Finnish: vasen ranta — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- French: rive gauche — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- German: linksufrig — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- German: linksuferig — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Hungarian: bal part — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Japanese: 左岸 (sagan) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Korean: 좌안 (jwaan) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Polish: lewy brzeg — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Polish: lewobrzeżny — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Russian: левобере́жный (levoberéžnyj) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Slovak: ľavobrežný — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Slovene: levobrežni — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Spanish: margen izquierda — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Ukrainian: лі́вий бе́рег (lívyj béreh) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Ukrainian: лівобере́жжя (livoberéžžja) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Ukrainian: лівобере́жний (livoberéžnyj) — river bank to the left when facing downstream
- Vietnamese: tả ngạn — river bank to the left when facing downstream