"BA" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more BA [comparative], most BA [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} BA (comparative more BA, superlative most BA)
  1. (euphemistic) Initialism of bad-ass. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, euphemistic, initialism Alternative form of: bad-ass
    Sense id: en-BA-en-adj-hl6LJbob Categories (other): English euphemisms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: B.A. (alt: initialisms)

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} BA
  1. Initialism of British Airways. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: British Airways
    Sense id: en-BA-en-name-INGv4I8t Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks
  2. Initialism of Buenos Aires. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Buenos Aires
    Sense id: en-BA-en-name-2yQILDhS
  3. (overprint on British stamps) Initialism of British Administration (usually followed by a place name). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: British Administration (extra: usually followed by a place name)
    Sense id: en-BA-en-name-TAyIrIIj
  4. Abbreviation of Bali, a province of Indonesia. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Bali (extra: a province of Indonesia)
    Sense id: en-BA-en-name-pqdnuREV
  5. Abbreviation of Bahia, a state of Brazil. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Bahia (extra: a state of Brazil)
    Sense id: en-BA-en-name-6izjoeif
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: B.A. (alt: initialisms)

Noun

Forms: BAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} BA (plural BAs)
  1. Initialism of Bachelor of Arts. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Bachelor of Arts Categories (topical): Academic degrees
    Sense id: en-BA-en-noun-eonCPQtT Disambiguation of Academic degrees: 2 10 6 14 1 4 32 7 9 5 1 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 10 8 16 1 5 22 5 13 7 1 12 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 0 8 6 17 2 4 24 6 10 12 1 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 0 8 5 12 1 4 34 7 9 11 1 8
  2. Initialism of Business Analyst. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Business Analyst
    Sense id: en-BA-en-noun-NuamGMme Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks
  3. Initialism of breast augmentation. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: breast augmentation
    Sense id: en-BA-en-noun--Xd8dpjY
  4. (Internet, security) Initialism of Basic Authentication. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Basic Authentication Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-BA-en-noun-hZFziqHO
  5. Abbreviation of bathroom. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: bathroom
    Sense id: en-BA-en-noun-gN2QqIO0
  6. Initialism of bongkrek acid. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: bongkrek acid
    Sense id: en-BA-en-noun-h-nP-wTs
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: B.A. (alt: initialisms)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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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.