Dictionaries › English

leftover

The English word “leftover” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Remaining; left behind; extra; odd; in reserve.

noun

  1. Something left behind; an excess or remainder.
  2. Remaining after a meal is complete or eaten for a later meal or snack.

Etymology

From left (“remaining, abandoned”) + over (“excess”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “leftover” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.