al
noun
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al-variant of ad- before l: allure.
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-ala 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, -al1 was restricted to stems not containing an -l- (cf. -ar); recent lapses in this rule have produced semantically distinct pairs, as familiar and familial.
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Al-a word in Arabic names meaning “family” or “the house of ”.
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al.abbreviationother things.
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AL.abbreviationAnglo-Latin.
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a.l.abbreviationautograph letter.
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A.L.
A.L.abbreviationAmerican League.
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American
Symbol, Chemistry.
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Baseball. American League.
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American Legion.
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Anglo-Latin.
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Alabama
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(in the US and Canada) American League (of baseball teams)
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Albania (international car registration)
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indicating an aldehyde
ethanal
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indicating a pharmaceutical product
phenobarbital
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Etymology
Origin of al1
From the Hindi word āl
Origin of -al6
< Latin ālis, -āle; often replacing Middle English -el < Old French
Origin of -al7
< Latin -āle (singular), -ālia (plural), nominalized neuter of -ālis -al 1; often replacing Middle English -aille < Old French < Latin -ālia
Origin of -al8
Presumed to be short for aldehyde
Origin of Al-9
From the Arabic word āl family
Origin of al.10
From the Latin word alia
Origin of al.11
From the Latin word aliī
Example Sentences
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Any time Al-Drimly heard of attacks in nearby Khan Yunis or Deir al Balah, he would go to check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Former UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein described him as "the epitome of evil".
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Aida al Drimli from the Sabra district of Gaza City, shows us a picture of her son, Mahmoud, a fresh-faced young man draped in a Palestinian scarf.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Instead, Damascus belongs to Ahmed al-Sharaa, a Sunni leader and former commander of al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, who had fought Hezbollah for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
‘Only my uncle, Caliph Haroun al Rashid,’ the Sultan said.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
“How do we get from the Columbian Exchange to Al Qaeda? What would motivate people to create a terrorist group? Why would America be a target?” he asked his class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
They retrieved the bodies of Nadhira Al Harthy, the first Omani woman to climb Everest, and Pur Bahadur Gurung, a Nepalese climber who had summited 12 of the world's 14 highest peaks.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"The UAE invests for the long term and builds partnerships that endure," UAE Industry Minister Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Ronnie’s team includes Lenny Ouyang, who runs underground games in New York City; Nikki Barlow, whose stunning looks camouflage her gambling savvy; and Al Cardano, a “wannabe comic” and math wizard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Uncle Al is desperate to get there before someone else snaps him up.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
They’re the best team in the AL, overcoming their low payroll to emerge as a powerhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Three AL West teams—the Astros, Athletics and Los Angeles Angels—fired their general managers during the season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Hopeful return: A year ago, Garrett Crochet was 18-5 and led the AL with 205 1/3 innings pitched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Still, the Brewers or Rays almost certainly could have landed Skubal, the two-time reigning AL Cy Young recipient and an impending free agent this winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
AL is the line indicating at the several points, B, C, D, etc., proportional increments in supply.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
"I understand why he is going - to strengthen Saudi-UK relations. I have no problem with him going… Prince William has a privileged place and opportunity to speak to Mohammed bin Salman," al- Masarir said.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
This illustration from al-Biruni’s fourteenth-century history called al-Athar al- Baqiyah depicts the prophet Abraham destroying idols that were being worshipped instead of the one God.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“All Arab countries felt the joy for us and helped us feel the joy,” Yassin al- Youssfi, said as he poured Moroccan tea wearing the team’s bright red shirt.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
Former U.S. attorney and white-collar crime lawyer Robert S. Mueller III took office one week before the al- Qaeda attacks, and he presided over a wholesale revamp of the bureau’s counterterrorism efforts.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2017
I plucked off yellow al- lamanda flowers, still wet, and slid them over my fingers, as I had seen Chima do.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The names for aldehyde and ketone compounds are derived using similar nomenclature rules as for alkanes and alcohols, and include the class-identifying suffixes -al and -one, respectively:
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Semeiolog′ic, -al, pertaining to semeiology; Semeiot′ic, relating to signs, symptomatic.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Scorbutic, -al, skor-bū′tik, -al, adj. pertaining to, resembling, or diseased with scurvy.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Trōpolog′ic, -al, expressed or varied by tropes or figures.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Trim′eter, Trimet′ric, -al, consisting of three measures, esp. iambic.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Power often rested in the hands of local governors, who exploited regional tensions or weaknesses to establish their own dynasties and even their own rival caliphates, as in Al- Andalus.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
MBC Group, the Middle East's largest media company, and Al- Sharq News, a newly created television news channel, have also internally discussed plans to move to Riyadh, the sources said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2021
“Our main concern should be for this drought in Ethiopia not to degenerate into a famine,” said the humanitarian envoy, Ahmed Al- Meraikhi.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2017
The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate captured Al- Mauritani and two other al-Qaeda operatives, Abdul Ghaffar al- Shami and Messara al-Shami in the southwestern city of Quetta, the military’s press office said in an e-mailed statement.
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 6, 2011
We even bundled up Al- haji’s old shirt and tied a rope around it to make a soccer ball.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
Mr. Amodei et al. would do themselves and the country a service by explaining that commonplace principle to Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Former Disney head honcho Bob Iger, et al., owning the Lakers?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Madison, Hamilton, et al. would wonder at our credulous view of human nature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The paper, titled "Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility profiling identifies cell types and functional variants contributing to major depression" by Anjali Chawla and Gustavo Turecki et al., was published in Nature Genetics.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
In a 2012 study, Patil et al. examined the neural underpinnings of musical timbre in order to understand the underlying processes of timbre recognition.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
AL. šitim, šidim = idinnu is usually written with the sign GIM, Poebel, PBS.
From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon
Projected videos of rushing rivers and roiling seas mix effortlessly with disparate photographs of human gender fluidity, which marks the people in A.L.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
McClinton, 59, and Devon Guion, 38, both lived at A.L.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
He went into play leading A.L. rookies in homers, RBIs, runs and was tied for first place in hits.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
The book’s title references an Atlantic magazine article in which Winkler hypothesized that Emilia Bassano Lanier — hitherto best known as A.L.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
Going home, A.L. said 'Pray for me; I am quite happy, and so is H.' Altogether a day of the revelation of Christ,—a sweet day to myself, and, I am persuaded, to many souls.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Andrew A. Bonar
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