"AKA" meaning in English

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Preposition

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} AKA, {{en-prep}} AKA
  1. Initialism of also known as. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: also known as Synonyms: a/k/a, A.K.A., a.k.a., aka Related terms: FKA, PKA Translations (also known as): alias (Dutch), a.k.k. (Esperanto), ehk (Estonian), eli (not an initialism) (Finnish), alias (Indonesian), anku (Northern Kurdish), aka (Polish), alias (Polish), TCC (Portuguese)

Alternative forms

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