"l" meaning in English

See l in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Character

IPA: /ɛl/ [letter, name], /l/ [phoneme], [l] (note: main allophones), [ɫ] (note: main allophones), [w] (note: main allophones) Audio: en-us-L.ogg [US], en-uk-l.ogg [UK] Forms: L [uppercase], ls [plural], l's [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛl Head templates: {{head|en|letter|lower case||upper case|L|plural|ls|or|l's}} l (lower case, upper case L, plural ls or l's), {{en-letter}} l (lower case, upper case L, plural ls or l's)
  1. The twelfth letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script. Tags: letter, lowercase Categories (topical): English numeral symbols
    Sense id: en-l-en-character-1vDKeukL Disambiguation of English numeral symbols: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 16 14 3 2 2 30 Related terms: letter [Latin, letter], A [Latin, letter], a [Latin, letter], B [Latin, letter], b [Latin, letter], C [Latin, letter], c [Latin, letter], D [Latin, letter], d [Latin, letter], E [Latin, letter], e [Latin, letter], F [Latin, letter], f [Latin, letter], G [Latin, letter], g [Latin, letter], H [Latin, letter], h [Latin, letter], I [Latin, letter], i [Latin, letter], J [Latin, letter], j [Latin, letter], K [Latin, letter], k [Latin, letter], L [Latin, letter], l [Latin, letter], M [Latin, letter], m [Latin, letter], N [Latin, letter], n [Latin, letter], O [Latin, letter], o [Latin, letter], P [Latin, letter], p [Latin, letter], Q [Latin, letter], q [Latin, letter], R [Latin, letter], r [Latin, letter], S [Latin, letter], s [Latin, letter], T [Latin, letter], t [Latin, letter], U [Latin, letter], u [Latin, letter], V [Latin, letter], v [Latin, letter], W [Latin, letter], w [Latin, letter], X [Latin, letter], x [Latin, letter], Y [Latin, letter], y [Latin, letter], Z [Latin, letter], z [Latin, letter]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Interjection

Head templates: {{en-interj}} l
  1. (Internet slang) Clipping of lol. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Alternative form of: lol
    Sense id: en-l-en-intj-RDLKtY19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 16 14 3 2 2 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

Etymology: Abbreviation. # (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɛl/. # (stenoscript) Abbreviation of will. # (stenoscript) Abbreviation of well. # (stenoscript) Abbreviation of all. # (stenoscript) the suffix -ly or word-final syllable /liː/. Etymology templates: {{lb|en|stenoscript}} (stenoscript), {{lb|en|stenoscript}} (stenoscript), {{no deprecated lang param usage|Abbreviation of <span class='form-of-definition-link'><i class="Latn mention" lang="en">will</i></span>.|lang=}} Abbreviation of will., {{abbreviation of|en|will}} Abbreviation of will., {{lb|en|stenoscript}} (stenoscript), {{no deprecated lang param usage|Abbreviation of <span class='form-of-definition-link'><i class="Latn mention" lang="en">well</i></span>.|lang=}} Abbreviation of well., {{abbreviation of|en|well}} Abbreviation of well., {{lb|en|stenoscript}} (stenoscript), {{no deprecated lang param usage|Abbreviation of <span class='form-of-definition-link'><i class="Latn mention" lang="en">all</i></span>.|lang=}} Abbreviation of all., {{abbreviation of|en|all}} Abbreviation of all., {{lb|en|stenoscript}} (stenoscript), {{m|en|-ly}} -ly Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} l
  1. Abbreviation of litre/liter. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: litre/liter
    Sense id: en-l-en-noun-jvgtHuR9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 16 14 3 2 2 30
  2. Abbreviation of pound (sterling), derived from Latin libra. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: pound (extra: (sterling), derived from Latin libra)
    Sense id: en-l-en-noun-OscAbQex
  3. Abbreviation of leaf. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: leaf
    Sense id: en-l-en-noun-8m6XHMip
  4. (law) Abbreviation of line. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: line Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-l-en-noun-gJBg3U9J Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: belted l, Bl -ably, -ibly, dark l, l-vocalization, l-word, small-l liberal, small-l libertarian, take the l
Etymology number: 2

Numeral

IPA: /ɛl/ [letter, name], /l/ [phoneme], [l] (note: main allophones), [ɫ] (note: main allophones), [w] (note: main allophones) Audio: en-us-L.ogg [US], en-uk-l.ogg [UK] Forms: L [uppercase]
Rhymes: -ɛl Head templates: {{head|en|numeral symbol|lower case||upper case|L||l|||sc=}} l (lower case, upper case L), {{en-number|lower=l|upper=L}} l (lower case, upper case L)
  1. The ordinal number twelfth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script. Tags: alt-of, lowercase, ordinal Alternative form of: twelfth (extra: derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script) Categories (topical): English ordinal numbers, English numeral symbols
    Sense id: en-l-en-num-E8mjrklF Disambiguation of English numeral symbols: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 16 14 3 2 2 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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    "Pages with raw sortkeys"
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      "name": "en-interj"
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  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "lol"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings",
        "English internet slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of lol."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
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        [
          "lol",
          "lol#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Internet slang) Clipping of lol."
      ],
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). 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.