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fl

fl is the initialism of flush left.

Meaning of flush left

Adjective

flush left (not comparable)

  1. Alignment of the text aligned along the left margin or gutter.
    Synonyms:
    left-justified

Noun capitalized: FL

FL (plural FLs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of foreign language.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of flight level.
  3. (abbreviation, historical, slang) Abbreviation of French letter.
    • ‘Well, what did he recommend? Those effells are a pain in the neck, only for bachelors.’1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 41
    • Used and discarded Fls–French letters–floated in the slime, little opaque vessels carrying human seed into oblivion.2005, Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay
  4. (abbreviation, slang) Abbreviation of female lead.
    Synonyms:
    FML

Proper noun (1) capitalized: FL

FL

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Florida: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Flevoland: a province of the Netherlands.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Fl

Fl

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Florida; Alternative form of FL.

Synonyms of fl

Forms of fl

pluralFLs
alternative formeffell
alternative formFl

Questions about fl

What is fl the initialism of?
Fl is the initialism of flush left.
What part of speech is fl?
Fl can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fl?
The plural of fl is FLs.

Words near fl in the dictionary

  1. fka
  2. fked
  3. fking
  4. fkn
  5. fks
  6. fl
  7. fl.
  8. fl. oz.
  9. FLA
  10. Fla.
  11. flab

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fl (page history and authors); FL (page history and authors); Fl (page history and authors); flush left (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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