"l" Definition

Definitions for the word "l" from multiple English dictionaries.

1.
L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2.
As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
(also l) (pl. Ls or l''s) 1 twelfth letter of the alphabet. 2 (as a roman numeral) 50.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
6. abbr.
(also l.) 1 learner driver. 2 lake.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
7. abbr.
(also l.) 1 left. 2 line. 3 litre(s).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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