RIGHT WING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does right wing mean? 

• RIGHT WING (noun)
  The noun RIGHT WING has 1 sense:

1. those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged

  Familiarity information: RIGHT WING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHT WING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

right; right wing

Hypernyms ("right wing" is a kind of...):

faction; sect (a dissenting clique)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "right wing"):

religious right (United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools)

hard right (the extreme right wing)

Derivation:

rightist (a member of a right wing political party)

 Context examples 

Sir Oliver and you, my Lord Angus, I give you the right wing, and the left to you, Sir Simon, and to you, Sir Richard Causton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)