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l.

l. is the abbreviation of leaf.

l. is the abbreviation of line.

l. is the abbreviation of pound.

l. is the abbreviation of left.

Meaning of leaf

Noun

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

  1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
    • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7
  2. A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  3. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  4. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
    • Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.1900, Profitable Advertising, volume 10, number 2, page 893
  5. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
    • gold leaf
    Synonyms:
    folio, folium
  6. One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
    • Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52

See all 22 meanings of leaf

Meaning of line

Noun

line (plural lines)

  1. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
    • The arrow descended in a curved line.
    1. An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
    2. (informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
    3. An edge of a graph.
    4. A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
    5. ('the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.

See all 74 meanings of line

Proper noun capitalized: L.

L.

  1. Latin

Noun capitalized: L.

L.

  1. pound sterling
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of locative case.

Forms of l.

pluralll.

Phrases with l.

Questions about l.

What does l. mean?
L. means latin.
What is l. the abbreviation of?
L. is the abbreviation of leaf.
What part of speech is l.?
L. can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near l. in the dictionary

  1. l-vocalization
  2. l-word
  3. l-words
  4. L-xylulokinase
  5. L-xylulokinases
  6. l.
  7. L. A.
  8. L. B.
  9. L. Empon
  10. L. I.
  11. L. U. C. A.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: l. (page history and authors); L. (page history and authors); leaf (page history and authors); line (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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