"AFL" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /eɪ ɛf ɛl/
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} AFL
  1. (Australian rules football) Initialism of Australian Football League. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Australian Football League Synonyms (Australian Football League): VFL (english: before 1990)
    Sense id: en-AFL-en-name-ThMrzaEd Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, Australian rules football Disambiguation of 'Australian Football League': 53 23 1 23
  2. (American football) Initialism of Arena Football League. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Arena Football League
  3. (US, labor union) Initialism of American Federation of Labor. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: American Federation of Labor Synonyms (labor union): AF of L
    Sense id: en-AFL-en-name-hYwJk5ar Categories (other): American English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of 'labor union': 17 11 58 14
  4. (obsolete, American football) Initialism of American Football League. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, obsolete Alternative form of: American Football League Derived forms (American Football League): AFC Related terms (American Football League): USFL
    Sense id: en-AFL-en-name-qV09q7lf Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, Football (American) Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'American Football League': 23 23 3 51 Disambiguation of 'American Football League': 23 23 3 51
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: AFLNZ, NZAFL

Noun [English]

IPA: /eɪ ɛf ɛl/ Forms: AFLs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} AFL (plural AFLs)
  1. (computing theory) Initialism of abstract family of languages. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: abstract family of languages
    Sense id: en-AFL-en-noun-0LQCY-Xa Categories (other): Theory of computing Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (automotive) Initialism of adaptive front light. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: adaptive front light
    Sense id: en-AFL-en-noun-RNXDeIhK Categories (other): Automotive Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
  3. Abbreviation of airfield lighting. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: airfield lighting
    Sense id: en-AFL-en-noun-A9GgHTVD

Noun [English]

IPA: /eɪ ɛf ɛl/
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} AFL (uncountable)
  1. (informal) The game of Australian rules football. Tags: informal, uncountable Related terms: ARL, NFC, NFL, VFA, VFL
    Sense id: en-AFL-en-noun-v8fJb6zr Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Australian English: 25 6 12 7 5 4 3 39 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 15 10 17 10 5 2 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 11 6 14 8 4 3 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 19 13 5 13 7 7 3 33

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.