Also spelled raight and reet
Meanings
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1
adj
Correct in opinion or fact; not mistaken.
Time proved them right.
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2
adv
Exactly in a particular place or position.
Stand right here next to me.
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3
adv
Immediately; without delay.
I called her right after dinner.
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4
adv
Completely; all the way.
He felt right at home from the very first day.
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5
adj
Forming a ninety-degree angle.
A square has four right angles.
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Etymology
From Middle English right, from Old English riht, reht (“right,” also the word for “straight” and “direct”), from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“having moved in a straight line”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”). The Germanic adjective which has been used also as a noun since the common Germanic period. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian rjocht (“right”), Dutch recht (“straight”), German recht and Recht (“right”), Luxembourgish Recht, riets (“right”), riicht (“straight”), Yiddish רעכט (rekht, “right”), Danish ret (“right”), F…