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El
Definitions
- 1 The (sometimes where "the" would not occur in normal English). Internet, humorous, informal
""[…] A sister of Joseph Gerard […] was found unconscious on the kitchen floor by the family cook early this morning. […]" […] What leads could they have, if the old lady was el zonko?"
- 1 Any of several major ancient Near East deities, including the supreme god of the Canaanite religion, but especially the supreme Hebrew God.
"[…]who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,[…]"
- 2 Any one of several specific elevated railways. slang
"The Washington Street El was torn down in 1987."
- 3 A unisex given name, often used as a nickname.
"Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary."
- 4 Initialism of Expression Language. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 The name of the Latin script letter L/l.
"The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch."
- 2 An elevated railway, especially for specific systems such as the metro in Chicago (informal) US
"The main section of the Sixth Avenue El from Morris Street to Ninth Avenue and 53rd Street shut down on December 4, 1938."
- 3 The name of the Cyrillic script letter Л / л
- 4 Initialism of electroluminescence. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 5 a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level wordnet
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- 6 Initialism of encephalitis lethargica (von Economo disease, sleepy sickness). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 7 angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) wordnet
- 1 The cardinal number occurring after dek and before do in a duodecimal system. Written ↋, decimal value 11.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English el, from Latin el (the name of the letter L).
Shortening of eleven.
Borrowed from Spanish el.
From Biblical Hebrew אֵל (ʾēl).
Clipping of elevated.
See also for "el"
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