right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīt
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹaɪt]
ipa: [ˈɹɒɪʔ]
ipa: /ˈɹiːt/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹiːt/
enpr: rīt
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹaɪt]
ipa: [ˈɹaɪθ̠]
ipa: [ˈɻɐʏt]
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹo̞ɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹəɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹo̞ɪʔ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɹəɪʔ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌɪt/
note: especially Nova Scotia
ipa: /ˈɹeɪt/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɹəi̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɹei̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ɾ̥]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹɑe̯t]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪt/
ipa: [ˈɹäːtʰ]
homophone: rite
homophone: wright
homophone: Wright
homophone: write
homophone: rate (dialectal; certain senses only)
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: rights
form: ryght
form: reight
form: rite
Etymology: From Middle English right, from Old English riht, reht, ġeriht (“that which is right, just, or proper”), from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtą (“a right”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵt- (“to straighten; direct”).
Cognate with Dutch recht (“a right; privilege”), German Recht (“a right”), Danish ret (“a right”).
Senses: examples: text: We're on the side of right in this contest.
text: Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to the right against the wrong, renouncing wrongful gain for justice, displaying their great benevolence in national salvation and summoning their great courage to surmount the crisis and turn back the perverse tide.
ref: 1973 July 22 [1973 July 17], Chiang Kai-shek, “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: That which complies with justice, law or reason.
examples: text: You have no right to go through my personal diary.
text: There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk:
text: "I do not know that you have any right to inquire into reasons for my conduct. I am at least sure that I never gave you any such right," replied Wiley.
"I claim no right but the common right of humanity," said the old gentleman. "If you do not acknowledge that, my interference in this matter can only be viewed as impertinent."
ref: 1850, T. S. Arthur, “Seed Time and Harvest”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 130:
text: Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
ref: 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: A legal, just or moral entitlement.
examples: text: The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
glosses: The right side or direction.
examples: text: "Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right, and he was sprawling on his back on the floor."
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 129:
glosses: The right hand or fist.
glosses: The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
examples: text: The political right holds too much power.
text: Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.
ref: 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
examples: text: Simple cross-stitch, with a space between each stitch, may be worked in two rows, in which case the completed stitch on the wrong sides alternates with that on the right.
ref: 1890, The Woman's World, page 434:
text: For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides, rights together, leaving one end open.
ref: 1913, Woman's Home Companion - Volume 40, page 40:
text: In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put two rights together.
ref: 1918, Pacific Rural Press - Volume 95, page 392:
synonyms: word: right side
english: of fabric
translation: of fabric
glosses: The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
antonyms: left
glosses: A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
Synonyms: sense: right side
word: starboard
sense: right side
word: 3 o'clock
Derived terms: absolute right
alternative right
as of right
audience right
background right
base right
bragging rights
by right
by rights
by right of
camera right
civil right
constitutional right
cyberrights
ding right
dissident right
divine right
divine right of kings
drag-along right
enumerated right
e-right
everyman's right
exclusive right
fundamental right
grandfather rights
hang a right
hard right
human right
human rights
industrial design right
in one's own right
in right of
in the right
junior right
mineral right
Miranda right
Miranda rights
natural right
neighbouring right
neuroright
nonenumerated right
non-enumerated right
petition of right
preemptive right
proper right
real right
related right
reproductive right
rightful
right-libertarianism
right of asylum
right of counsel
right of drip
right of entry
right of first refusal
right of Genghis Khan
right of publicity
right of reentry
right of repair
right of repentance
right of reply
right of sepulchre
right to bear arms
right to be forgotten
right to choose
right to die
right to honor
right to keep and bear arms
right-to-life
right to life
right to remain silent
right to repair
right to roam
right to silence
right to try
right to work
riparian right
shop right
sole right
special drawing right
stage right
tag-along right
tenant-right
trackage rights
traditional right
two wrongs don't make a right
two wrongs make a right
unenumerated right
Weingarten right
writ of right
your other right