right
/ɹaɪt/ noun A2- That which complies with justice, law or reason. · We're on the side of right in this contest.
- A legal, just or moral entitlement. · You have no right to go through my personal diary.
- The right side or direction. · The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
- The right hand or fist.
- The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
- The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group. · The political right holds too much power.
- The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
Plural rights
From the library
“That’s right!” exclaimed a multitude of voices, “go, and return as quickly as you can!”
She’s never been taught what is right.
“The truth is,” replied Dantès, “that I am too happy for noisy mirth; if that is what you meant by your observation, my worthy friend, you are right; joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”
Come, come,” continued he, patting Edmond’s shoulder kindly, “you did very right, Dantès, to follow Captain Leclere’s instructions, and touch at Elba, although if it were known that you had conveyed a packet to the marshal, and had conversed with the emperor, it might bring you into trouble.”
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