asl
asl is the initialism of age.
asl is the initialism of as hell.
Meaning of age
Noun
age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)
- The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
- "What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
- The state of being old; the latter part of life.
- Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins
- Synonyms:
- old age, dotage, senility, seniority, chair days, codgerhood, eld, elderliness, fogeydom, geezerdom
- Antonyms:
- youth
- Any particular stage of life.
- the age of infancy
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- the age of consent; the age of discretion
- Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- to come of age; she is now of age
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
- Synonyms:
- epoch, time, era, cycle, day, generation, Great Year, interval, period, Platonic year
Meaning of as hell
Adverb
as hell
- To a great extent or degree; very.
- It's cold as hell in here!
- Synonyms:
- as, as all hell, as a motherfucker, as anything, as fuck, as heck, as shit
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, hell.
- My Soul forſakes her vain Delight, / and bids the World farewel, / Baſe as the Dirt beneath my Feet, / And miſcheivous as Hell.1707, Isaac Watts, “Parting with Carnal Joys”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 87
Proper noun capitalized: ASL
ASL
- Initialism of American Sign Language.
- Whereas American Sign Language could have extended into Nicaragua by the 1980s, as it did in neighboring Costa Rica where it combined with a locally developed sign language in the 1960s, Nicaragua’s geo-political isolation prevented ASL from entering the country, notes Shepard-Kegl.2018 July 13, Shoshi Parks, “How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language”, in Atlas Obscura, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2025
- Initialism of Advanced Squad Leader.
- Initialism of Apache Software License.
Phrase capitalized: ASL
ASL
- Alternative form of asl (“age, sex, location”).
Adjective capitalized: ASL
ASL (comparative more ASL, superlative most ASL)
Noun capitalized: ASL
ASL (plural ASLs)
- Initialism of arithmetic shift left, a type of bitwise operation.
- Initialism of advanced stop line
Synonyms of asl
Forms of asl
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ASL |
| superlative | most ASL |
| Noun | |
| plural | ASLs |
Questions about asl
- What is asl the initialism of?
- Asl is the initialism of age.
- What part of speech is asl?
- Asl can be a proper noun, a phrase, an adjective or a noun.
Words near asl in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: asl (page history and authors); ASL (page history and authors); age (page history and authors); as hell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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