al: Meaning and Definition of

al

1. See

Al

1. a male given name: form of

à l'

1. form ofused for either gender before a vowel or h.

al-

1. var. ofbefore l: allure.

Al-

1. a word in Arabic names meaning “family” or “the house of ”: Al-Saud, or the members of the house of Saud.

-al

1. a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usually with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal). Originally,was restricted to stems not containing an -l- (cf.); recent lapses in this rule have produced semantically distinct pairs, as familiar and familial. Cf.

-al

1. a suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually verbs of French or Latin origin: denial; refusal.

-al

1. a suffix indicating that a compound contains an aldehyde group: chloral.

AL

1. Alabama (approved esp. for use with zip code).
2. Anglo-Latin.

Al

1. aluminum.

AL.

1. Anglo-Latin.

al.

1. other things.
2. other persons.

A.L.

1. American League.
2. American Legion.
3. Anglo-Latin.

a.l.

1. autograph letter.